Patent ID: 7493367

Claim:
A method for synchronizing e-mail messages for a user, comprising: receiving, at an e-mail control at a local server, a plurality of e-mail messages addressed to the user, from an external e-mail server; storing, by the e-mail control, each e-mail message of the plurality of e-mail messages, at the local server; storing, by the e-mail control, a message identifier for each e-mail message of the plurality of e-mail messages, in a first message identifier storage at the local server; connecting, by the e-mail control, to a consolidation mail server, the consolidation mail server reflects combined e-mail for the user; receiving previously synced message identifiers from the consolidation server and storing the previously synced message identifiers in a second storage at the local server; and comparing message identifiers in the first message identifier storage to message identifiers in the second storage to find a message identifier in the second storage that is missing from the first storage, and if so, then deleting the e-mail message that corresponds to the missing message identifier from the consolidation mail server.