Systems and methods for enabling electronic messaging with recipient-specific content

A method comprising the steps of:

• composing an electronic message that includes non-private information to be viewed by multiple recipients and private information to be viewed by at least one recipient, wherein less than all of the recipients are to view the private information and wherein the message is composed by an author;
• associating private information with a particular recipient using hypertext markup language (HTML) tags.

A method comprising the step of:

• composing an electronic message that includes non-private information to be viewed by multiple recipients and privately-highlighted non-private information to be viewed by at least one recipient, wherein less than all of the recipients are to view the privately-highlighted non-private information.

A method comprising the steps of:

• composing an electronic message that includes non-private information to be viewed by multiple recipients and private information to be viewed by at least one recipient, wherein less than all of the recipients are to view the private information and wherein the message is composed by an author;
• in connection with composing the message, selecting between encrypting private information before it is sent and not encrypting private information before it is sent.

A method comprising the steps of:

• providing a list of email addresses for mail merging;
• composing an electronic message that includes a first portion of information to be viewed by a first recipient having an email address from the list and that includes a second portion of information to be viewed by a second recipient having an email address from the list, wherein the first portion of information is different from the second portion of information, wherein at least one of the first recipient or the second recipient does not receive both the first portion of information and the second portion of information;
• associating the first portion of information with the first recipient using HTML tags.

A method comprising the steps of:

• composing an electronic message that includes non-private information to be viewed by multiple recipients, a first portion of private information to be viewed by at least one group of recipients, and a second portion of private information to be viewed by at least a second group of recipients, wherein the first portion of private information is different from the second portion of private information and wherein at least one recipient is not a member of both the first group of recipients and the second group of recipients;
• providing a recipient that is a member of the first group of recipients and the second group of recipients, wherein such recipient receives a single email message that includes both the first portion of private information and the second portion of private information.