US Patent 7051075 Electronic mail apparatus

An e-mail apparatus enhancing the ease of operation. The e-mail messages are transmitted based on classification results to reduce the load of a user. The e-mail apparatus facilitates composing a body of a message, selecting registrant data for a prescribed area, selecting attributes and a setting for association with the body of the message, the attributes and the setting for determining a list of recipients of the message according to the registrant data in the prescribed area, and sending the message to the list of recipients.