Patent ID: 7805458

Claim:
A cellular phone having a mailing function, the cellular phone comprising: a plurality of transmission mail folders for saving transmission mail including a piece of mail which has not been transmitted yet; a plurality of received mail folders for saving received mail; security setting/releasing means, implemented on a computer readable medium, for a user to select whether an object to which security is set is one of the transmission mail folders or one of the received mail folders or to select whether an object from which setting of security beforehand set thereto is released is one of the transmission mail folders or one of the received mail folders; security setting/releasing folder list display means, implemented on a computer readable medium, for displaying all folders contained in the transmission or received mail folders selected by the security setting/releasing means; security setting/releasing folder selecting means, implemented on a computer readable medium, in which at least one of the folders displayed by the security setting/releasing folder list display means is selected by the user and is set as a security setting objective folder or as a security releasing objective folder; and folder list display means, implemented on a computer readable medium, for displaying the transmission mail folders or the received mail folders in the form of a list, wherein a mark is assigned to the folder selected for the security setting by the security setting/releasing folder selecting means and the folder is displayed by the security setting/releasing folder list display means and is not displayed by the folder list display means, a mark is removed from the folder selected for the security releasing by the security setting/releasing folder selecting means and the folder is displayed by the security setting/releasing folder list display means and the folder list display means, the user stores a secret number for the security setting and releasing in a storage in advance, and when the user selects, using the security setting/releasing means, a received or transmission mail folder as an object of the security setting or releasing, the user inputs a secret number, and only when the secret number inputted by the user matches the secret number stored in the storage in advance, the security setting/releasing means conducts operation thereof.