Patent ID: 8499047

Claim:
A method for providing e-mail communications between a sender and a recipient by a first computer system comprising the steps of: said first computer system creating a first created e-mail address for a recipient; said first computer system receiving an incoming first e-mail message from a sending entity other than said first computer system comprising a first existing e-mail address of a sender addressed to said first created e-mail address of said recipient; said first computer system creating a second created e-mail address for said sender different from said first existing e-mail address and from said first created e-mail address; said first computer system creating a first modified e-mail message by replacing said first existing e-mail address in said incoming first e-mail message with said second created e-mail address; said first computer system delivering said first modified e-mail message to said recipient; wherein said step of said first computer system delivering said first modified e-mail message to said recipient comprises said first computer system sending said first modified e-mail message to a second existing e-mail address of said recipient different from said first created e-mail address of said recipient.