Patent ID: 8751585

Claim:
A method of managing electronic messages to a user of an electronic message client, comprising: using an electronic message client in conjunction with one or more electronic message of a plurality of electronic messages in an inbox associated with a user, the electronic message client integrated in a communication system, the using comprising: selecting an electronic message from the inbox; assigning an archiving rule to the selected electronic message that includes a definition of an action that can be subsequently carried out using at least some portion of the communication system, wherein the action defined in the archiving rule is selected from a list of actions that can be detected by the communication system, wherein the action defined in the archiving rule is based at least in part on content of the selected electronic message; and defining an archive location within the communication system to which the selected electronic message is moved after the action is detected; and moving the selected electronic message from the inbox to the archive location after detection of the action defined in the archiving rule; wherein the communication system provides management of collaborative applications, the list of actions comprising at least one of the following actions: update to a page associated with a collaborative application by the user or another user associated with the communication system in which the collaborative application is hosted by the communication system; and update to a page associated with a collaborative application in which the collaborative application is hosted outside the communication system.