New and improved systems and methods for confirming transmission of email
and other similar messages (e.g., instant messages, wireless device
messages, etc.). Such systems and methods includes and involve generation
means for permitting a sender to generate an email message to be sent to
a specified recipient via a messaging system, confirmation means for
confirming that the email message is to be sent to the specified
recipient by presenting to the sender a confirmation notice requesting
the sender to confirm that the specified recipient is an intended
recipient of the email message, and sending means for causing the email
message to be sent to the specified recipient via the messaging system
after the sender operates the confirmation means and confirms that the
specified recipient is an intended recipient.