Patent ID: 8126972

Claim:
A system comprising: at least one computing device implementing an access management facility and a message processing facility communicatively coupled to the access management facility; the access management facility configured to generate a pre-populated list of potential authorized message sources from messaging data in a user message box, receive a selection, from a user, of at least one potential authorized message source from said pre-populated list of potential authorized message sources, maintain data representing said selected potential authorized message source as one authorized message source in a set of authorized message sources, generate and activate an access code, transmit said access code to a potential message source, and maintain data representing said potential message source as another authorized message source in said set of authorized message sources; and the message processing facility configured to receive an incoming message; determine whether a source of said incoming message is included in said set of authorized message sources; deliver said incoming message to said user if said source of said incoming message is determined to be included in said set of authorized message sources, and if said source of said incoming message is determined not to be included in said set of authorized message sources, determine whether said incoming message includes said access code, deliver said incoming message to said user if said incoming message is determined to include said access code, and not deliver said incoming message to said user if said incoming message is determined not to include said access code.