preferably includes a conventional high speed modem employing known communication protocols capable of decrypting encrypted data received from the interface user devices 120 130 large capacity storage device 250 contains transaction processor 260 user account database 352 animation database 354 image database 356 and audio database 358 transaction processor 260 maintains determines and accesses data stored in databases 352 354 356 358 and handles multi mail message information for transmission between senders 124 and recipients 134 as described in connection with fig2 17 transaction processor 260 may comprise a separate conventional cpu microprocessor or a portion of the operating function of cpu 240 user account database 352 contains data about senders and recipients that register with the multi mail service described herein the data is used to store subscriber information including name and email address es as well as information for accessing audio video and animation files where appropriate animation database 354 contains information relating to animations associated with a sender or sender 39 s message animation information includes data relating to a dynamic graphic associated with a sender 39 s message image database 356 contains information relating to images associated with a sender or sender 39 s message as well as data for controlling the audio and video aspects of a dynamic image image information may include any dynamic or static graphic associated with a sender 39 s message audio database 358 contains information relating to audio data associated with a sender or sender 39 s message in one embodiment the image may be a graphic of a user 39 s or someone else 39 s face in an alternate embodiment an image may be any other type of graphic audio information may include any.