Abstract: According to the present invention, an SMTP server sending a mail having a predetermined mail address as a recipient to a server that receives and manages the mail having the predetermined mail address, includes: an advertisement information memory operable to store advertisement information to be added to the mail; an advertisement information detector operable to detect the advertisement information to be added to the mail from the advertisement information memory based on at least one of user information about a user having the mail address of the recipient of the mail, user information about a user having a mail address of a sender of the mail and a sentence included in the mail; an advertisement information adding portion operable to add the advertisement information to the mail; and a sending portion operable to send the mail to the server.

Abstract: An order receiving system for receiving a merchandise order, includes an information providing unit 300 for providing to a terminal 16 or 18 merchandise information including merchandise specifying information which specifies the merchandise; an order information inputting unit for inputting the merchandise specifying information supplied from the terminal 16 or 18 which has received the merchandise information; a notifying unit for notifying a store terminal 20 related to a store dealing with the merchandise of order information of the merchandise according to the merchandise specifying information inputted into the order information inputting unit; a confirmation information inputting unit for inputting confirmation information, which indicates that the order information has been confirmed, from the store terminal 20; an order information storing unit for storing the order information and the confirmation information with making the order and confirmation information be corresponding to each other; and an u

Abstract: A message searching and system and a terminal, which display messages to terminal users based on their individual characteristics profile, even when a plurality of users use the same terminal and even when users copy and use the same program. The system includes a message user database for storing records defining user characteristics profiles of terminal users, and a transmittal condition database for storing searching conditions for each message which may be transmitted to the terminal. This system detects a necessity to revise the user characteristics when communicating with the terminal, and revises the user characteristics if necessary. This system reads user characteristics from the message user database, and searches for appropriate messages from the transmittal condition database based on the user characteristics and characteristics associated with each message identifier. The message user database stores each user's birth date and the last system communication date.