A method of filtering electronic mails and an electronic mail system

摘要

The invention relates to a method of filtering an electronic mail in an electronic mail system and, an electronic mail system. The method comprises steps of: providing an electronic graph representation of electronic mail related characteristics derived from the history of electronic mail exchange in the electronic mail system in a data base, and assigning to a present electronic mail provided for transmission in the electronic mail system an electronic indicator indicative of a potential abusive mail character of the present electronic mail by analyzing present electronic mail characteristics based on the graph representation in the data base.