Patent ID: 7082459

Claim:
A system for providing an E-mail service through a portable terminal with a wireless Internet access function, comprising: a multimedia server for receiving a multimedia E-mail message including multimedia data and E-mail data to be transmitted to the portable terminal, and after receiving the E-mail message, removing the multimedia data from the E-mail message, storing the multimedia data in an internal local memory, and adding uniform resource locator (URL) information of a server on which multimedia data is stored as a predetermined format string to the E-mail message; an E-mail server for receiving the E-mail message from the multimedia server and notifying the receiving portable terminal of the arrival of the E-mail message; and the portable terminal for receiving the E-mail message from the E-mail server, parsing the E-mail message, and displaying the E-mail message with multimedia link information if the predetermined format string is confirmed, wherein an E-mail recipient can access data stored in a VOD server by selecting the multimedia link information from within an opened E-mail.