Patent ID: 8015251

Claim:
A method in a client side of a mail management application stored on a non-transitory computer-readable medium, for selectively requesting a read mail acknowledgment to at least one recipient of a mail among a plurality of recipients, said method comprising the steps of: creating a mail on a computing machine using said client side of said mail management application, said mail comprising a body and a list with all recipients of said mail; receiving a user's command to send said mail; receiving at least one of user's commands for selecting among said list of all recipients, predetermined recipients for whom a read mail acknowledgement is requested and predetermined recipients for whom no read mail acknowledgement is requested; building a list with said mail management application, after receiving said user's command to send said mail, of said predetermined recipients for whom a read mail acknowledgement is requested; building a list with said mail management application, after receiving said user's command to send said mail, of said predetermined recipients for whom no read mail acknowledgement is requested; and determining whether said lists of said predetermined recipients for whom a read mail acknowledgement is requested and said predetermined recipients for whom no read mail acknowledgement is requested each contain at least one recipient, and if so, then: duplicating the mail; associating with a first duplicate of the duplicated mail an indicator for requesting a read mail acknowledgement and sending said first duplicate to the one or plurality of recipients for whom a read mail acknowledgement is requested; and sending a second duplicate of the duplicated mail to the one or plurality of recipients for whom no read mail acknowledgement is requested.