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Abstract

A message sender (104) is equipped with a facility (250, 251) that automatically addresses the sender's messages and/or message components expressed in different media to the appropriate different addresses of the intended message recipient, in response to receiving an identification, such as the name, of the intended message recipient from the message sender. The message sender has an electronic directory (250) that lists, for at least some message recipients, a plurality of different telephone numbers and indicates for each telephone number the message medium or media that can be received at that address. The message sender further has a message manager (251) graphical user interface to a multi-media messaging system (101) that automatically responds to the sender-provided identity of the intended message recipient by finding in the directory either the message recipient's one telephone number for receiving all of the media in which the message is expressed, or the message recipient's telephone numbers for receiving each of the media if the one telephone number does not exist, and then addressing the message or the components of the message with the corresponding telephone number or numbers prior to sending the message to the intended recipient.

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