Electronic mail analysis and processing

A system comprising:

• a memory operable to store a plurality of received electronic mail messages;
• and
• a processor coupled to the memory and operable to:
• for each of the plurality of electronic mail messages, determine two or more characteristics associated with the respective electronic mail message, wherein the two or more characteristics comprise at least a user identification of a sender of the electronic mail message and a sentiment associated with content included in the respective electronic mail message, the sentiment determined by at least two of a content analysis, linguistic analysis, and grammatical analysis;
• assign a plurality of numerical values to each of the plurality of electronic mail messages based on at least the user identification and the sentiment, wherein the numerical values indicate a relative importance of the electronic mail message and the relative importance indicates a priority of an action item related to the electronic mail message;
• based on the assigned numerical values, select one or more of the plurality of electronic mail messages to transmit to a user;
• generate a message based on the selected one or more of the plurality of electronic mail messages;
• and
• transmit the message to the user.

A non-transitory computer readable medium encoded with logic, the logic operable, when executed on a processor, to:

• store a plurality of received electronic mail messages;
• for each of the plurality of electronic mail messages, determine two or more characteristics associated with the respective electronic mail message, wherein the two or more characteristics comprise at least a user identification of a sender of the electronic mail message and a sentiment associated with content included in the respective electronic mail message, the sentiment determined by at least two of a content analysis, linguistic analysis, and grammatical analysis;
• assign a plurality of numerical values to each of the plurality of electronic mail messages based on at least the user identification and the sentiment, wherein the numerical values indicate a relative importance of the electronic mail message and the relative importance indicates a priority of an action item related to the electronic mail message;
• based on the assigned numerical values, select one or more of the plurality of electronic mail messages to transmit to a user;
• generate a message based on the selected one or more of the plurality of electronic mail messages;
• and
• transmit the message to the user.