Patent ID: 8166112

Claim:
A method for distributing email by an email server, comprising: receiving, by the email server, a first email encapsulating data generated by a sender and addressed to a plurality of recipients, a first portion of the plurality of the recipients having email addresses served by the email server that serves the email address of the sender, wherein the email server serves the email address of the sender; storing, by the email server, the generated email in a designated location, wherein the designated location comprises a sent folder of the sender which is accessible to at least one of the first portion of the plurality of the recipients and not accessible to at least one of the second portion of the plurality of the recipients; sending, by the email server, a second email to the at least one of the first portion of the plurality of the recipients, wherein the second email comprises information a link to the stored email at the designated location; sending, by the email server, a third email to the at least one of the second portion of the plurality of the recipients, the third email comprising the encapsulated data from the received email so that the third email can be viewed without accessing the stored email, receiving the second email at a first client-side; opening the second email in a client e-mail application, the client email application configured to present the second email to the recipient as if it were a conventional email such that the handling of the second email is transparent to the recipient; receiving the third e-mail at a second client-side; and displaying the third mail in a second inbox, wherein the third email is displayed in the inbox without access the encapsulated data at the designated location.