FORWARDING E-MAIL MESSAGE ATTACHMENTS FROM A WIRELESS DEVICE

摘要

A system and method of forwarding an e-mail from a wireless device is provided The wireless device receives the e-mail message in portions as needed, the portions having the attachments contained therein. The portions of the e- mail message containing only a subset of attachments associated with the e-mail message in the user mailbox. When a wireless device forwards the e-mail message to one or more recipients a message identifier and an attachment indicator is provided for identifying the number of attachments in the e-mail message to be forwarded. The identified e-mail message is retrieved and the attachments are extracted from the retrieved e-mail message based on the attachment indicator. The e-mail message is forwarded to the one or more recipients and the extracted attachments.