In a data processing system (100) supporting an electronic mail messaging
system, a method of managing e-mail messages comprising, under the
control of a mail user agent of a message sender user (QRS): keeping a
list (455,450) of messages sent by the message sender user; enabling the
sender user selecting (500,505,510) a wrong message (513) from the list
of sent messages; causing a correcting message (520) to be sent to at
least one of the message recipient users (ABC,DEF,JKL) of the selected
message, the correcting message including message qualifier
(X-replace-mail) qualifying the correcting message as a message intended
to correct the selected message. Under the control of a mail user agent
of said at least one of the message recipient users, the correcting
message is received; using the message qualifier included therein, the
selected message is identified among the received messages (715,720,730),
and a correcting action on the selected message is performed.