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Abstract

A mobile device (10) includes a client agent (16) for sending and receiving electronic mail messages via an internet connection, for permitting a user to set the predetermined status for a particular email message and for monitoring a status of each of the electronic mail messages. The mobile device (10) also includes a microphone (18) for recording an audio message, a digital signal processing device (22) for converting the audio message from an analog format to a digital format and for storing the audio message in a local memory (20) with the identification tag and a speaker 24 for playing the audio message. The client agent (16) creates an identification tag, and associates it with a particular electronic mail message by appending the identification tag to the particular electronic mail message and determines that the particular electronic mail message has achieved the predetermined status by recognizing an acknowledgment signal sent from a remote server. The client agent (16) plays the audio message if it determines that the particular electronic mail message has achieved the predetermined status set by the user.

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