Patent ID: 7836139

Claim:
A computer implemented method comprising: determining each journal report in an inbox of a journal mailbox to be processed for identification, said each journal report having a message content and not having a modified message class value indicating that said journal report is a journal part; creating a custom message ID MAPI property on each said journal report having an Internet Message ID, said custom message ID MAPI property including a custom message ID value based on said Internet Message ID; firstly modifying a message class value of a message class MAPI property on each said journal report to indicate said journal report is a journal part so that the journal report is excluded from subsequent identification processing; determining each journal part in said inbox to be processed for grouping; grouping each journal part to be processed for grouping into a Current Set of related journal parts based on said custom message ID value, each of said related journal parts in a Current Set having a same custom message ID; and grouping each journal part in a Current Set into a group of related journal parts based on said message content, each of said related journal parts in a group having a same message content, each said group having one journal part selected as a master copy for said group, each said master copy having a related journal parts MAPI property including a related journal parts value identifying the other related journal parts in said group.