Patent ID: 8407300

Claim:
A non-transitory medium with an electronic mail management program recorded, for causing a computer, which sends a forwarding mail of an electronic mail received from a sender, to execute a process comprising: obtaining an address set in the forwarding mail; deciding whether the address obtained by the obtaining is a receiver of a delete program for deleting the forwarding mail; relating the electronic mail to the sender and relating the electronic mail to the receiver of the delete program decided by the deciding; detecting transmission of the forwarding mail; detecting receipt of a first delete instruction mail containing an instruction to delete the electronic mail and having a delete program attached thereto, the first delete instruction mail being sent by the sender; setting a receiver of a second delete instruction mail containing an instruction to delete the forwarding mail and having the delete program attached thereto, as the receiver of the delete program decided by the deciding; and sending the second delete instruction mail, wherein the setting sets the receiver of the second delete instruction mail when the detecting receipt detects the receipt of the first delete instruction mail, and wherein the sending sends the second delete instruction mail to the receiver set by the setting.