A SYSTEM FOR NOTIFYING A DESTINATION TERMINAL THAT ELECTRONIC MAIL HAS REACHED A HOST COMPUTER

A mail-receive noticing system and method and provided for automatically notifying a destination terminal of a fact that an electronic mail reaches a host computer. A mail-sending terminal includes a mail-receiving notice instructing device for accepting a mail-receiving notice instruction of a sender on the sending terminal given depending upon urgency or importance level of the mail and an information sending device for sending mail-receiving notice instructing information generated based on the accepted mail-receiving notice instruction, together with a sending signal of an electronic mail to a host computer. The host computer includes a device for receiving the mail-receiving notice instructing information from a sending terminal and processing devices for generating a mail-receiving notice indication based on the received mail-receiving notice instructing information and sending the same to a receiving terminal. The destination terminal includes a mail-receive noticing device actuated by the received mail-receiving notice indication for noticing that an electronic mail reaches the host computer to a user in an informing fashion different along urgency or importance level of the mail instructed by the sender.