Patent ID: 7310660

Claim:
A method for removing unsolicited messages from a client's email in a networked computer system in an off-line manner where the networked computer system has a dirty POP email server to which the client's email is sent, where the networked computer system has a clean POP email server from which the client fetches their mail, where the networked computer system has a client database with the client's dirty POP server address, dirty POP login, and dirty POP password, clean POP login, and clean POP password are stored, where the networked computer system has a unsolicited message database in which the unsolicited messages and the message identifier are stored, and where the networked computer system has a computer system capable of executing the method comprising the steps of: a) picking up the client's email messages from the dirty POP email server using the POP address, POP login, and POP password from the client database, b) selecting a message c) “finger printing” the message to form an identifier, d) checking to see if the identifier is in the unsolicited message database, e) deleting the message if the identifier is in the unsolicited message database, f) sending the message to the clean POP email server if the identifier is not in the unsolicited message database, and g) repeating steps b) through f) for all the client's messages.