Patent ID: 7707260

Claim:
A computer program product stored in a recordable type computer readable medium for resending a previously sent email message, the computer program product comprising: first instructions for detecting a request to resend a previously sent email, wherein the request is initiated by a user selecting an add recipient button within a graphical user interface of an email program: second instructions, responsive to the user selecting the add recipient button, for prompting the user for a new recipient for the previously sent email message through a pop-up window that is specifically used to add additional recipients to previously sent emails; third instructions for receiving user input for the new recipient for the previously sent email message through the pop-up window; fourth instructions, responsive to receiving the user input for the new recipient, for adding the new recipient to the previously sent email message, wherein the previously sent email message is directed to the new recipient and a previous recipient; fifth instructions, responsive to receiving the user input for the new recipient, for adding an indicator to the previously sent email message, wherein the indicator indicates that the new recipient has been added to form a new version of the previously sent email message; and sixth instructions, responsive to adding the indicator, for sending the new version of the previously sent email message, wherein the indicator causes the new version of the previously sent email message to replace the previously sent email message at an email program of the previous recipient, and wherein the indicator causes display of an icon in an in folder mail box by the email program of the previous recipient in association with the new version of the previously sent email message to designate that the new version of the previously sent email message is a replaced email message that includes the new recipient.