Patent ID: 7519671

Claim:
A method for receiving and classifying normal e-mail and advertising e-mail, comprising the steps of: (a) classifying e-mails into normal e-mail and advertising e-mail; (b) setting up a “normal inbox” and an “advertising inbox” in a mail-receiving-and-sending software for receiving the normal e-mail and the advertising e-mail respectively; (c) causing the “normal inbox” to only accept e-mail with addresses which are listed on a list of permissible addresses beforehand by a user, and causing the “advertising inbox” to only accept e-mails which are solicited by the user beforehand; (d) upon clicking a right mouse button on the “normal inbox”, causing an item of “permissible addresses” to appear, and upon clicking the right mouse button on the “permissible addresses”, further causing a frame on which the user can make a list of permissible addresses to appear, wherein only the e-mails with the addresses included on the list of the permissible addresses will be received, and when the user receives e-mail through the internet, the content of the “permissible addresses” will be automatically uploaded to and stored in a public mail server, the public mail server having a function of sending the e-mails with the permissible addresses to the “normal in box” for the user, and other e-mails will not be sent to the “normal inbox; (e) upon clicking the fight mouse button on the “advertising inbox”, causing a classification list including different business items to appear for the user to choose, wherein the user can tick a box adjacent to an interested business item to indicate that the advertising e-mail belonging to the selected business item is acceptable, and the advertising e-mails belonging to unselected business items will be blocked, and when the user receives e-mail through the internet, the content of the “classification list” will be automatically uploaded to and stored in the public mail server, the public mail server having a function of sending the advertising e-mail belonging to the selected business item to the “advertising inbox” for the user, and other advertising e-mails belonging to the unselected business items will not be sent to the “advertising inbox”; (f) asking an advertising e-mail sender to classify the advertising e-mail thereof according to the above-mentioned “classification list”, and to attach identifying information to the advertising e-mail to be sent, so as to enable the public mail server to distinguish a classification of the advertising e-mail to determine whether the advertising e-mail's classification is listed in the classification list, and regarding an advertising e-mail without such identifying information as normal e-mail; (g) if the user fails to make a list of “permissible addresses”, causing the public mail server to accept all e-mails that have arrived in a mail box of the user, and to reject all advertising e-mails if the user fails to select an item on the “classification list”.