Patent ID: 7836134

Claim:
A method for e-mail address inspection, comprising: providing a list of suggested or predicted addresses on a communications device in response to a partial e-mail address being entered into the communications device by a user, the communications device comprising a processor; receiving a selection of one of the suggested or predicted addresses from the list of suggested or predicted addresses in response to the user entering a partial email address, wherein the selected one of the suggested or predicted addresses is placed in an address field of a message; setting a flag in the communications device to indicate that the user has selected one of the suggested or predicted addresses from the list of suggested or predicted addresses, wherein the flag is not set when the complete email address has been typed in by the user so that the user has not selected a suggested or predicted address; saving the partial e-mail address and the address selected by the user from the list of suggested or predicted addresses by the communications device; using the saved partial e-mail address to check for other possible matches to the saved partial e-mail address in an electronic address book in response to the flag being set; presenting a warning to the user by the communications device in response to other possible matches being found in the electronic address book and the selected address not being in a predetermined domain; and not presenting said warning to the user by the communications device in response to other possible matches not being found in the electronic address book or the selected address being in a predetermined domain.