Patent ID: 7945629

Claim:
A computer implemented method for preventing delivery of undesired e-mail message, the computer implemented method comprising: receiving by a processor a remove request from a non-desiring client, wherein the remove request identifies a first e-mail content from a previous e-mail message, wherein the remove request is received in a return e-mail sent by the non-desiring client; responsive to receiving the remove request, updating by the processor an active request with the remove request; and responsive to updating the active requests, parsing by the processor a message file to identify a set of e-mail messages within the message file, wherein the set of e-mail messages corresponds to the remove request; responsive to identifying the set of email messages redacting by the processor an e-mail address of the non-desiring client from a previously received message within the message file, wherein the previously received message comprises a second e-mail content that matches the first e-mail content.