opened versus those that have not been opened the received email group may also provide statistics of received messages that have been deleted and those that have been deleted without ever having been opened the received email group may also provide statistics as to the most frequent incoming message senders the received email group may also provide statistics as to the most frequent senders of messages of a particular type those skilled in the art will recognize other statistics that may be kept and displayed according to the present invention referring now to fig4 the more detail view with respect to sent email preferably includes a display of statistics with respect to attachments sent as indicated at 45 as well as the forwarding replying to and redirecting of received mail as indicated at 47 51 respectively in the illustrated example this information is displayed numerically in tabular form with counts for the various activities for the current recent and average time periods the information may also be displayed in graphical form the system of the present invention may provide additional statistics with respect to attachments for example the system may provide information as to the average size of sent or received attachments the system may also identify the most frequent senders or recipients of attachments the system may provide in addition to the basic and more detailed information described above statistics with respect to sent mail forwarding replying and redirecting.