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Abstract

The present invention provides a system and a method for a user to verify receipt of an electronic communication such as an email message by an intended recipient. Instead of forwarding the email to the intended recipient(s), (e.g. as a normal SMTP server might,) the invention sends a notification message of a posted email to the intended recipient(s). The email and attachments are each saved at a unique call address on a server such as for example a web server. At least one unique address is provided for each of the intended recipients that points to the location of the contents of the original email. When attachments accompany the email, each attachment is also assigned an address that is unique for each intended recipient. The intended recipient is notified of the call addresses for collecting the email and attachments. When the recipient downloads or collects the email and attachments from their respective addresses, the invention detects information regarding the downloaded email and notifies the sender that the email was retrieved. This information may be stored in a back-end database for ease of access and management.

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First Claim