Patent ID: 7818384

Claim:
A method of delivering an original electronic message to one or more points of delivery that are not specified in the destination address of the original message, the method comprising: providing one or more duplicating mail transfer agents to receive one or more original electronic messages and make one or more copies of the original messages, wherein each copy has the same destination address as its original message; receiving at one of the duplicating electronic mail transfer agents, the original electronic message with a destination address; providing a database accessible by the one or more duplicating mail transfer agents of additional mail transfer agents associated with the destination address of the original message; making one or more copies of the original messages by the one or more duplicating mail transfer agents, wherein each copy has the same destination address as the original message; associating one of the additional mail transfer agents from the database to each copy of the original messages, wherein each mail transfer agent is different from each of the other mail transfer agents so that each copy of the messages has a point of delivery different from each of the other copies; transmitting the original electronic message towards its destination address; and transmitting each copy of the messages synchronously towards its respective associated mail transfer agent.