Patent ID: 7543029

Claim:
A machine programmed to operate in accordance with a stored program comprising: a receiving unit receiving an electronic mail to a predetermined receiving address defined as a mailing list; a mailing list information storage unit recording a transfer destination address of the electronic mail registered in the mailing list as a transfer destination and defined as another mailing list, and at least one bypass-transfer destination address registered in the another mailing list for bypassing the transfer destination address; a transferring unit transferring the electronic mail to the transfer destination address; a re-sending determining unit searching for and determining the at least one bypass-transfer destination address registered in the another mailing list in the mailing list information storage unit when a transfer of the electronic mail to the transfer destination falls into failure; and a bypass-transferring unit reading the at least one bypass-transfer address determined by the re-sending determined unit and transferring the electronic mail to the at least one bypass-transfer address; wherein the transfer destination, in the normal situation, sends transfer the electronic mail to the at least one bypass-transfer address registered in the another mailing list by receiving the electronic mail to the transfer destination address defined as the another mailing list.