Abstract: The objective of the present invention is to easily acquire necessary information at arbitrary times.

Abstract: The objective of the present invention is to easily acquire necessary information at arbitrary times.

Abstract: The objective of the present invention is to distribute a variety of information to a user without the user being forced to perform an unnecessary operation, so that the effects produced by information distribution can be improved. An email, which serves as a search trigger, is received from a portable phone and a search query is extracted from the email, multiple predesignated searches of different types are then performed, in accordance with the search query, and based on multiple search results obtained by the searches, multiple reply email messages are generated, for which the transmission source address of the received email is regarded as the reply destination, and the reply email messages are transmitted to the reply destination.

Abstract: There are provided a mail processing server, a mail processing method, and a mail processing program, which can more efficiently utilize server resources and construct a system at low cost. First, desired information is retrieved from any one of a dictionary DB, a story DB, and a game contents DB of a database in which information on information retrieval request is registered on the basis of state information corresponding to a current information retrieval request from a mobile phone. Then, a mail in which retrieval result information and state information relating to the retrieval result information are described is transmitted to the mobile phone. In response to a reply mail from the mobile phone, next information retrieval is executed based on the state information described in the reply mail.