Patent ID: 8832198

Claim:
An electronic mail (e-mail) method, comprising the steps of: sending an e-mail from a sender to at least one recipient; using an electronic sender operated device to select one or more alerts to be sent to said at least one recipient based on an instruction from said sender to alert said at least one recipient that said e-mail has been sent from said sender to said at least one recipient, wherein said alerts are selected from the group consisting of a post card, a letter, a facsimile, a telegram, a courier, a voice message, a telephone call, a text message, and a social network posting, wherein said one or more alerts are communications other than e-mails from an e-mail account used in said sending an e-mail step; and sending said one or more alerts to said at least one recipient, wherein said step of sending one or more alerts is performed irrespective of message screening tools of said at least one recipient.