Patent ID: 7739334

Claim:
A method of forwarding email, comprising: downloading an email forwarding engine from a server computer to a client personal computer, the downloaded email forwarding engine including computer-readable instructions to cause the client personal computer to examine start criteria, the start criteria being independent of email stored in an email datastore of an email server; determine whether the start criteria are met; obtain new email events from the email datastore when the start criteria are met, the new email events including transactional information indicating a status of the email stored in the email datastore of the email server; forward information including the new email events via a computer network to a datastore associated with the server; compare the start criteria stored on the client personal computer with start criteria stored on the server; and synchronize the start criteria stored on the client personal computer and the start criteria stored on the server when a difference is detected therebetween, wherein the transactional information includes information indicating the email as at least one of created email, forwarded email, replied to email and deleted email.