Patent ID: 8577888

Claim:
A computer system for accessing an e-mail, the computer system comprising: one or more processors, one or more computer-readable memories, one or more computer-readable tangible storage devices, and program instructions stored on at least one of the one or more storage devices for execution by at least one of the one or more processors via at least one of the one or more memories, the program instructions comprising: program instructions to receive the e-mail at a web site from a sender of the e-mail for posting, and post the e-mail at the web site for retrieval by one or more addressees specified in the e-mail; program instructions to (a) receive at the web site, from the one or more addressees, specification of one or more descriptive tags for the e-mail and correlate the one or more descriptive tags to the e-mail, and (b) prevent correlation to the e-mail of a descriptive tag from a person who is not the sender of the e-mail, not an addressee of the e-mail and not an administrator of the web site; program instructions to receive from one of the addressees a subsequent key word search for the one or more descriptive tags; program instructions, responsive to the subsequent key word search being received from one of the addressees and matching the one or more descriptive tags and the correlation of the one or more descriptive tags to the e-mail, to identify the e-mail to the one addressee; and program instructions, responsive to identification by the sender or the one or more addressees of another person, who is not the sender of the e-mail, not an addressee of the e-mail and not an administrator of the web site, as authorized to post a descriptive tag for the e-mail, to receive at the web site, from the other person, specification of another descriptive tag for the email and correlate the other descriptive tag to the e-mail such that a subsequent key word search for the other descriptive tag will yield the e-mail.