Patent ID: 8560623

Claim:
A machine-implemented method for supporting email message size reduction, comprising: identifying a first email recipient that is to receive a full version of an email message comprising full email message text; identifying a second email recipient that is to receive a summary version of said email message comprising summary message text in lieu of said full email message text, said identifying a second email recipient comprising: (1) if said identifying a second email recipient is performed by an email client, receiving an email address of said second email recipient in a second user interface field; or (2) if said identifying a second email recipient is performed by an email server, inspecting a second email header field that contains an email address of said second email recipient, said second email header field being different from a first email header field that contains an email address of said first email recipient; and taking an action to facilitate said full version of said email message being sent to said first email recipient and said summary version of said email message being automatically generated from said full version of said email message and sent to said second email recipient.