Patent ID: 7389322

Claim:
An E-mail terminal device, comprising: a judging unit which judges whether or not a reply destination mail address extracted from an E-mail received is an address of a mailing list used for broadcasting the same E-mail to a plurality of destinations at one time by a predetermined single mail address by comparing with addresses registered in a mail address book; an extracting unit which automatically extracts at least one mail address of the mailing list contained in a text of the E-mail received when the reply destination mail address is judged to be the address of the mailing list, and does not extract the at least one mail address when the reply destination mail address is judged to not be the address of the mailing list; and a selecting unit which displays the at least one extracted mail address as a candidate for a reply destination from which a specified reply destination is selected, where the specified reply destination is used for transmitting a reply in response to the E-mail received.