Method And System For Removing A Person From An E-Mail Thread
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsZoran Radenkovic, Neil Ian Readshaw
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Abstract
A method for automatically removing a user from an e-mail thread is provided. An e-mail client receives a reply e-mail message. Responsive to a determination that the reply e-mail message is a message to opt-out of an e-mail thread, the e-mail address of a sender of the reply e-mail message is associated with the e-mail thread to form a listed e-mail address. The listed e-mail address is stored. When a new e-mail message is generated that is part of the e-mail thread, the listed e-mail address is automatically excluded from a list of recipients of the new e-mail.
Claims20
A method for automatically removing a user from an e-mail thread, the method comprising steps performed by a computer of:
- receiving a reply e-mail message at an e-mail client running on the computer;
- responsive to a determination by the e-mail client that the reply e-mail message is a message to opt-out of an e-mail thread, associating an e-mail address of a sender of the reply e-mail message to the e-mail thread to form a listed e-mail address;
- storing the listed e-mail address;
- generating a new e-mail message at the e-mail client, wherein the new e-mail message is part of the e-mail thread;
- and
- excluding, automatically by the e-mail client, the listed e-mail address from a list of recipients of the new e-mail message.
A computer program product comprising:
- a computer recordable medium having computer usable program code for automatically removing a user from an e-mail thread, the computer program product comprising:
- computer usable program code for receiving a reply e-mail message at an e-mail client;
- computer usable program code, responsive to a determination by the e-mail client that the reply e-mail message is a message to opt-out of an e-mail thread, for associating an e-mail address of a sender of the reply e-mail message to the e-mail thread to form a listed e-mail address;
- computer usable program code for storing the listed e-mail address;
- computer usable program code for generating a new e-mail message at the e-mail client, wherein the new e-mail message is part of the e-mail thread;
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- computer usable program code for excluding, automatically by the e-mail client, the listed e-mail address from a list of recipients of the new e-mail message.
A data processing system for automatically removing a user from an e-mail thread, the data processing system comprising:
- a bus;
- a communications unit connected to the bus;
- a storage device connected to the bus, wherein the storage device includes computer usable program code;
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- a processor unit connected to the bus, wherein the processor unit executes the computer usable program code to receive a reply e-mail message at an e-mail client;
- responsive to a determination by the e-mail client that the reply e-mail message is a message to opt-out of an e-mail thread, associate an e-mail address of a sender of the reply e-mail message to the e-mail thread to form a listed e-mail address;
- store the listed e-mail address;
- generate a new e-mail message at the e-mail client, wherein the new e-mail message is part of the e-mail thread;
- and exclude, automatically by the e-mail client, the listed e-mail address from a list of recipients of the new e-mail message.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.