Internet message management portal

摘要

An Internet message management portal implementing program instructions for managing messages of remote message sources by way of the Internet is provided. The instructions include program instructions for establishing message sources for a user. Each message source is associated with access and management information provided by the user. Program instructions are further provided for storing the access and management information for the message sources in a user database and for accessing each of the message sources over the Internet at user defined times using the access and management information. Program instructions are also provided for copying messages from the message sources and for saving the copied messages at a message database. Finally, program instructions are provided to enable web browser access to the portal and to the message database so that the user can access the copied messages, and the copied messages being displayed for the user to handle.