Patent ID: 7257639

Claim:
A method for servicing email at a client of a sender of an email comprising: receiving a request at the client of the sender to send the email to a recipient, the email containing a main body and one or more attachments and the recipient having an incoming email server for receiving at least a portion of the email; determining at the client of the sender whether the recipient has a corresponding distributed storage separate from the incoming email server; determining at the client of the sender an availability of the distributed storage based on determining the recipient has a corresponding distributed storage; if the recipient has the available corresponding distributed storage: sending the main body of the email from the client of the sender to the incoming email server of the recipient; and sending the one or more attachments of the email from the client of the sender to the corresponding distributed storage; otherwise, sending the main body of the email and the one or more attachments from the client of the sender to the incoming email server.