Patent ID: 8005462

Claim:
A mobile communications system comprising: a mobile device having a mail user agent; and a mobile office platform operative with the mail user agent for accessing a plurality of electronic mailboxes of the mail user agent using a plurality of protocol specific connectors, said mobile office platform is operative for downloading and providing only the n-most recent mail headers of electronic messages to the mail user agent in a default order of mail headers provided by an electronic mail protocol used for accessing an electronic mailbox when said electronic mail protocol used for accessing the electronic mailbox specifies a default message list order and when said electronic mail protocol does not specify the default message list order, then using stored associative information of an electronic mail provider or said electronic mailboxes and downloading and providing n-most recent mail headers in an order based on the stored associative information about an electronic mail provider and said electronic mailboxes to be accessed, and when said associative information cannot be used, then downloading all mail headers for the electronic mailboxes and sorting the mail headers and extracting only the n-most recent mail messages and delivering the n-most recent mail messages to the mail user agent.