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Abstract

An electronic mail transfer system including an information processing station and a telephone exchange system. The information processing system accommodates a plurality of terminals and has an electronic mail transmitting function. The telephone exchanging system accommodates a plurality of telephones interrelated to the respective terminals and each having an input element. The telephone exchanging system operates to monitor an input operation performed by the input elements of each telephone, and transmits information indicative of the input operation to the information processing system. The information processing system operates to control an electronic mail transfer operation based on the information indicative of the input operation transmitted from the telephone exchanging system, to transfer electronic mail destined for a terminal to a predetermined transfer destination if no input operation is performed at a telephone corresponding to the terminal and to not transfer the electronic mail if an input operation is performed at the telephone.

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