Patent ID: 8626719

Claim:
A method of managing e-mails in a computer system comprising at least one e-mail server, at least one other server and at least one client computer, wherein the e-mail server maintains a data set identifying a plurality of e-mails managed by the e-mail server, wherein at least some of the plurality of e-mails are individually identified in the data set by an associated shortcut identifier, and wherein the attachments are stored by the other server, the method comprising: transmitting, by the client computer, requests to access at least some of the plurality of e-mails to the at least one e-mail server, wherein the requested e-mails are intercepted if the e-mails individually include having an attachment identified in the data set by the associated shortcut identifier; receiving individually, at the client computer in response to the requests, full copies of the at least some of the plurality of e-mails having attachments thereof identified in the data set by the associated shortcut identifiers, the full copies of the at least some of the plurality of e-mails comprising all of the content of the e-mails, including the attachments stored in the other server such that the attachments replace the shortcut identifiers at the client computer in the full copies of the at least some of the plurality of e-mails; and storing, by the client computer, the full copies of the at least some of the plurality of e-mails, including the attachments that were received at the client computer in response to the request.