Patent ID: 8244814

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for managing email configuration, at least a portion of the method being performed by a computing device comprising at least one processor, the method comprising: receiving a first email message from a first device, the first email message being: received on a second device; sent from a first email address; identifying, on the second device, device-type information in the first email message, the device-type information indicating a device type of the first device; associating the device-type information with the first email address; identifying, on the second device, a second email message addressed to a destination email address; detecting that the destination email address is associated with the device-type information, the destination email address being the same as the first email address; using the device-type information on the second device to select email-configuration information for the second email, a configuration-information database comprising the email-configuration information; reformatting, on the second device, a body of the second email based on the email-configuration information, the email-configuration information comprising formatting information.