Patent ID: 9160694
Filing Date: 2015-10-13
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. An email management method, comprising: receiving an email, and judging whether the email is attached with an attachment; if the email is attached with an attachment, extracting attachment information of the email, and saving the attachment information, wherein the attachment information comprises: attachment content and attachment attribute information; wherein, the attachment content refers to an attachment file in the email; and the attachment attribute information comprises sender information, sending time of the email to which the attachment belongs, size of the attachment file, name of the attachment file and/or type information of the attachment file; and, wherein the step of saving the attachment information includes automatically saving the attachment attribute information in a special storage directory that is invisible to a user and automatically physically saving the attachment content in a special storage space, wherein, after the step of automatically physically saving the attachment content in a special storage space, the email management method further comprises: manually re-saving the attachment content in a specified storage space, deleting the attachment content automatically physically saved in the special storage space, generating address link information which points to the location in the specified storage space or the specified storage space where the attachment content manually saved by the user is stored; and saving the address link information of the specified storage space in the special storage space.