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1. A computer-implemented method of inserting a new e-mail into an interior of an original e-mail thread, the computer-implemented method comprising:
receiving, by an e-mail server, a request to send a new e-mail to a new recipient, wherein the new e-mail is relevant to an interior e-mail in an original e-mail thread, wherein the original e-mail thread is an existing e-mail thread that has an unbranched single thread status, where the original e-mail thread comprises an initial e-mail and a latest e-mail, wherein the interior e-mail is chronologically between the initial e-mail and the latest e-mail in the original e-mail thread, and wherein the initial e-mail and the latest e-mail are addressed to prior recipients; retrieving, by the e-mail server, the original e-mail thread; inserting, by the e-mail server, the new e-mail into the original e-mail thread to create an updated e-mail thread, wherein the new e-mail is inserted next to the interior e-mail in the original e-mail thread, and wherein the updated e-mail thread retains the unbranched single thread status of the original e-mail thread; providing, by the e-mail server, the updated e-mail thread to the prior recipients, wherein the updated e-mail thread displays the new e-mail and an identity of the new recipient of the new e-mail; and providing, by the e-mail server, all e-mails from the original e-mail thread and identities of the prior recipients to the new recipient. |