Patent ID: 8831991

Claim:
A method comprising: determining, by using one or more processing components, that a limited-use electronic mail account has received at least one item of electronic mail; forwarding, by using one or more processing components, the at least one item of electronic mail from the limited-use electronic mail account to at least one secondary electronic mail account in accordance with at least one disposition command; setting, by using one or more processing components, a pre-specified value corresponding to a minimum number of accesses to the limited-use electronic mail account in which the limited-use electronic mail account will be disabled; determining, by the one or more processing components, a number of accesses to the limited-use electronic mail account reached or exceeded the pre-specified value, the determining a) based on the forwarding of the at least one item of electronic mail from the limited-use electronic mail account to at least one secondary electronic mail account or b) based on accesses to the limited-use electronic mail account; based on the determining that the number of accesses to the limited-use electronic mail account reached or exceeded the pre-specified value, disabling the limited-use electronic mail account; and implementing at least partially using at least one of hardware or firmware at least one of the a) determining that the limited-use electronic mail account has received at least one item of electronic mail, b) forwarding the at least one item of electronic mail, c) setting the pre-specified value, d) determining the number of accesses to the limited-use electronic mail account reached or exceeded the pre-specified value, or e) disabling the limited-use electronic mail account.