Patent ID: 7886015

Claim:
A method for automatically sending e-mail to a future-designated recipient, comprising: setting a future-designated role recipient capable of identification and sending an e-mail categorized with respect to a target project group to each of a plurality of e-mail clients associated with each defined member of the target project group; forming the target project group with a plurality of roles, wherein defining a member of the target project group comprises assigning personal identity indicia to the defined member role, the indicia comprising an e-mail address; adding the sent e-mail or a copy thereof to a future-designated role recipient e-mail batch, wherein the batch is categorized with respect to the group; revising a role for a current member of the target project group; automatically forwarding previous e-mails for which the member with the revised role is defined to the member of the target project group with the revised role; defining an identity of an undefined role member of the target project group with the e-mail address of the future designated role recipient; and automatically forwarding the categorized e-mail batch to an e-mail client associated with the e-mail address of the future designated role recipient in response to the identity defining; accumulating all previous project emails intended for the undefined role member into the e-mail batch; selecting a subset of previously held emails for the revised role; and storing task background information of the target project group for later forwarding to the undefined role member of the target project group.