Patent ID: 8527593

Claim:
A method for use in a computer system comprising an email message system that manages a plurality of email messages and an email archive system, wherein the email message system supports creation of user email accounts accessible by an email message client that executes on a client computer that a user of the client computer having an email account operates to manage the user's email messages accessible via the user's email account, the user's email messages comprising at least a portion of the plurality of email messages, the method comprising: (A) creating a local email archive store on the client computer to store at least one archived email message having at least one property that includes a first property setting, wherein the archived email message was previously stored in a local email store on the client computer and replaced with a short cut identifier in the local email store on the client computer, the short cut identifier including first information for retrieving the archived email message from the local email archive store, and second information comprising the first property setting of the at least one property; (B) in response to a user of the client computer editing the at least one property associated with the at least one archived email message, updating the second information of the short cut identifier stored in the local email store to reflect the edit to the at least one property associated with the at least one archived email message.