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Abstract

To provide a personalized voice email service, data pertaining to one or more of a user's email accounts, e.g., email addresses and account access data, is maintained in a folder by an information assistance service, which is unaffiliated with the email service providers (e.g., AOL, Hotmail, etc.) maintaining the user's email accounts. When the user calls the information assistance service, the user's folder is retrieved. The user's email accounts may be accessed on behalf of the user based on the email addresses and account access data in the user's folder. An information assistance provider including, e.g., an operator and/or a voice server, may present information concerning the email messages received in the user's email accounts in different manners. For example, header information (e.g., sender/address, subject, etc.) concerning the selected email messages may be announced to the user. The operator may use a stored name of the sender of an email message when announcing header information. At the user's request, a message may be sent to the user whenever an email message is received from a specified individual or email address.

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