Patent ID: 7058688

Claim:
A multi-stage email interception method, comprising the steps of: receiving an email message; querying a receiving number corresponding to the email message from an array according to related information of the email message; rejecting the email message if the receiving number is higher than a first setting value and the email conforms to email characteristics recorded in a specific email record; recording the email characteristics corresponding to the email message into the specific email record if the receiving number is higher than a second setting value and an email address of the recipient of the email message does not appear in at least one recipient field of the email message; accepting the email message first and then deleting the email message if the receiving number is higher than the second setting value and the email address of the recipient of the email message does not appear in the recipient field of the email message; and accepting and forwarding the email message to a specific mailbox if the receiving number is higher than a third setting value and the email address of the recipient of the email message does not appear in the recipient field of the email message.