Patent ID: 8224908

Claim:
An information processing system which includes a transmitter terminal and an E-mail transmission control apparatus, wherein: the transmitter terminal comprises: a processor and a memory; a setting unit configured to set, based on a user operation for designating an application classification of an E-mail to be transmitted, the designated application classification to the E-mail; a transmission unit configured to transmit the E-mail to which the application classification set by the setting unit has been added, to the E-mail transmission control apparatus; an application classification identifying unit configured to automatically identify, from application classification judgment information in which a character string and the application classification are made corresponding to each other, the application classification corresponding to the character string included in the E-mail; and a warning unit configured to output warning information in a case where the application classification set by the setting unit and the application classification identified by the application classification identifying unit are different from each other; and the E-mail transmission control apparatus comprises: a processor and a memory; a reception unit configured to receive the E-mail to which the application classification set by the setting unit has been added, from the transmitter terminal; an identifying unit configured to identify, from approval request information in which the application classification and an approval request destination are made corresponding to each other, the approval request destination corresponding to the application classification added to the E-mail received by the reception unit; and an approval request transmission unit configured to transmit an approval request to the approval request destination identified by the identifying unit.