Patent ID: 8103726

Claim:
A method comprising: prior to transmission of an electronic mail message, determining that a first indication of an intended recipient occurs in content of the electronic mail message while analyzing the electronic mail message, wherein a second indication of the intended recipient occurs in a first type of recipient address field of the electronic mail message; analyzing a context of the first indication of the intended recipient within the content of the electronic mail message wherein said analyzing the context of the first indication of the intended recipient within the content of the electronic mail message comprises determining at least one of a location of the first indication of the intended recipient within the content and punctuation in relation to the first indication of the intended recipient; determining that the intended recipient is of a first recipient type of a plurality of recipient types with respect to the electronic mail message based, at least in part, on said analyzing the context of the first indication within the content of the electronic mail message, wherein the first recipient type corresponds to a second type of recipient address field of the electronic mail message and a second recipient type of the plurality of recipient types corresponds to the first type of recipient address field; determining that the second indication of the intended recipient is incorrectly placed in the first type of recipient address field based on the determining that the intended recipient is of the first recipient type; and moving the second indication of the intended recipient from the first type of recipient address field to the second type of recipient address field in response to determining that the second indication of the intended recipient is incorrectly placed in the first type of recipient address field.