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Abstract

A communication system for remotely re-selecting and re-transmitting received electronic mail at a destination terminal to another destination terminal using a remote communication device, e.g., a two-way pager. The system includes an electronic mail server coupled to an electronic mail network, a backbone and an alert network. The electronic mail server receives electronic mail messages from the electronic mail network or from the backbone network. Each received mail message includes a sender identification, an E-mail identification and a destination terminal. The server generates and transmits over the alert network a select signal and a message summary to the communication device when an E-mail has been received from a destination terminal. A communication device stores the message summaries and displays them as a user scrolls the message summaries. The user through a keyboard in the device may select and revise a message summary by entering a new destination in the message summary. Using a send key, the user transmits the revised message summary to the server coupled to the destination terminal. The server in response to the transmitted revised message summary accesses a database to locate a copy of the received message or contacts and instructs the destination terminal to forward a copy of the received message to the new destination terminal via the server or an alternate server.

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