Patent ID: 7428578

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for remotely selecting and initiating transmission of an electronic document, comprising: receiving at a source device from a remote device a first electronic mail message comprising a first request command for a graphical representation of a directory of documents stored on the source device; responsive to the received first message traversing the directory of the source device to generate a graphical representation of the directory; and transmitting from the source device to the remote device a second electronic mail message comprising the graphical representation of the directory, the graphical representation navigable on a user interface of the remote device; receiving at the source device from the remote device a third electronic mail message comprising a second request command to transmit at least one of the documents stored on the source device to an intermediate server; and responsive to the received third message, transmitting from the intermediate server source device to at least one destination device a fourth electronic mail message comprising the requested at least one of the documents stored on the source device.