System and apparatus for selectively publishing electronic-mail

DETAILED DESCRIPTION Accordingly, in view of the above background, it is an object of the present invention to publish a certain type of mail without needing to perform a complicated operation.
In order to achieve the above object, according to one aspect of the present invention, there is provided an electronic-mail processing apparatus comprising: receiving means for receiving electronic mail from a mail server which sends and receives electronic mail; condition setting means for setting a condition used for extracting a specific type of electronic mail; extracting means for extracting a specific type of mail from among the electronic mail received by the receiving means based on the condition set by the condition setting means; and publishing means for publishing the specific type of electronic mail extracted by the extracting means in a publishing area.
According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided an electronic-mail processing system comprising a first terminal, a second terminal, a first server, and a second server, wherein the first terminal sends electronic mail addressed to terminals other than the first terminal, the first server receives the electronic mail sent from the first terminal, the second server receives the electronic mail from the first server to extract a specific type of electronic mail from the received electronic mail based on a condition for extracting the specific type of electronic mail and publishes the extracted electronic mail in a publishing area, and the second terminal accesses the second server to receive information of the electronic mail published in the publishing area.
Further objects, features and advantages of the present invention will become apparent from the following description of the preferred embodiments with reference to the attached drawings.