STORAGE AND MANAGEMENT OF MAIL ATTACHMENTS

摘要

A system according to certain aspects improves the process of sending emails containing attachments. The system can detect a request to send an email containing attachments to one or more recipients, create a copy of the attachments on a network storage device, replace the attachments contained in the email with links to the copies of the attachments, and send the email containing the links to the one or more recipients.

主权项

1. A method for providing a file system for managing mail attachment data, the method comprising:
with one or more computing devices comprising computer hardware,
detecting a request to send a mail object from a sender to one or more recipients, the mail object containing at least one mail attachment data file;creating a first copy of the at least one mail attachment data file on a network storage device accessible by the sender and/or the one or more recipients;adding, to a file system accessible at least by the sender, one or more of (i) a second copy of the at least one mail attachment data file or (ii) a first link to the first copy of the at least one mail attachment data file on the network storage device; andoutputting a file system view of the file system for presentation to the sender, the file system view comprising (i) the one or more of the second copy of the at least one mail attachment data file or the first link to the first copy of the at least one mail attachment data file on the network storage device, and (ii) one or more other mail attachment data files or links to mail attachment data files stored in the file system.