Patent ID: 7631043

Claim:
A mobile wireless email communication device capable of sending, receiving and re-sending email messages via an associated message server, said mobile device comprising: a memory for maintaining a stored sent messages file, said stored sent messages file including at least (a) unique message ID data and (b) user recognizable message identifying data for each of plural previously sent email messages; and a processor for receiving a user resend command respective to one of said previously sent email messages, said processor configured, in response to said resend command, to initially send to said associated message server an abbreviated resend message request that includes said unique message ID data but not an entire email message text; wherein said processor is further configured to exchange communications with said associated message server related to the content of a respectively corresponding sent messages file at said associated message server and thereby cause said memory to maintain in said stored sent messages file, for each sent message then stored at said associated message server, said at least (a) unique message ID data and (b) user-recognizable message identifying data.