Patent ID: 7548952

Claim:
A method of sending an email to a plurality of recipients comprising the steps of: preparing the email on a client computer; designating each one of the plurality of recipients on the client computer; determining if an attachment file is to be attached to the email; selecting from among a plurality of available treatments a treatment for the attachment file corresponding to each recipient, the plurality of available treatments including at least two different treatments for sending the attachment file and one treatment corresponding to not sending the attachment file, whereby a different treatment may be selected for each recipient from among the plurality of available treatments, the steps of determining if an attachment file is to be attached to the email and selecting a treatment for the attachment file being performed on the client computer; preparing a control file on the client computer, the control file including information designating the treatment for the attachment file corresponding to each recipient; sending one copy of the control file, one copy of the email and one copy of the attachment file to a server computer; reading the control file at the server computer to determine the selected treatment for the attachment file for each recipient; and sending multiple copies of the email from the server computer, one copy being sent to each recipient with the attachment file being treated by the server according to the information in the control file designating the selected treatment for each recipient.