Patent ID: 7590539

Claim:
A system for providing notification of an incoming email message to a subscriber, comprising: an email server to which the incoming email message is sent and on which the incoming email is stored; an email notification server to automatically poll the email server for presence of at least one new email message; a header extraction process to extract the header of the new email message; a text-to-speech converter to extract at least a portion of the header to speech as converted header information; a process to call a voicemail server corresponding to the subscriber and leave a voicemail message indicating the presence of the new email message and containing the converted header information; and a process to automatically notify the subscriber of the voicemail message in a manner which refers to the new email message; wherein more than one email account are assigned to the subscriber, the email notification server automatically polls each email account of the subscriber for the presence of new email messages, and different preferences are capable of being designated by the subscriber for polling each email account in an account record.