Patent Document ID: 7831834
Application ID: 11080734
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for indicating a trust level for a message, comprising: determining a trust characteristic for a received message; associating a postmark for the determined trust characteristic with the received message; enabling a display of the postmark along with at least an indication of an unopened representation of the received message, wherein the trust characteristic of the received message is visually determinable by a user before the received message is opened based on the displayed postmark, and wherein the postmark is further displayed with one or more action selectors that enable one or more actions that are assigned to the postmark for handling the received message, based at least on the trust characteristic; enabling the user to select at least one of the action selectors to execute at least one rule for handling the received message based, in part, on the postmark, wherein the at least one rule is selectable by the user as a default for handling future received messages with the same postmark; and wherein the postmark is a customized postmark for a particular sender if the received message is from the particular sender, and wherein the customized postmark is a promotional postmark for at least one promotion if the at least one promotion is active for the received message.