Electronic mail system with means to transmit data to a plurality of recipients without user intervention

An electronic mail system comprising:

• a plurality of terminals;
• a business processing system connected to said plural terminals for effecting a business processing on the basis of data supplied from at least one of said plural terminals and for outputting a result of the processing output data in the form of print out data;
• and
• memory means connected to said business processing system for storing lists each containing information for each output data to specify a destination terminal to which the output data is to be transmitted, said information being supplied from at least another of said plural terminals through said business processing system;
• said business processing system including means for referring to the lists in said memory means and reading a destination terminal specified by the output data when outputting the output data, and means for outputting the output data to the read destination terminal
• said memory means includes means for beforehand loading in said lists information supplied from the at least another terminal for each output data, indicating a name of the output data and delivery day/time when the output data is to be delivered to a terminal corresponding thereto;
• and
• said business processing system further includes means for outputting to the corresponding terminal the output data corresponding to the output data name designated by said list at an arrival of the delivery day/time denoted by said list.