Shared attachments

摘要

When an outgoing communication sent to one or more recipients contains a supported attachment type, a shared workspace that contains a shared version of the original attachment is provisioned. A modified version of the original outgoing communication is delivered to internal recipients including both a link to the shared document and the original attachment.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
receiving a communication including an attachment addressed to one or more recipients including internal recipients and external recipients; retrieving recipient-specific metadata of each of the one or more recipients; sending a provision message for provisioning a shared document workspace that includes a shared version of the attachment accessible to the internal recipients of the one or more recipients based on the recipient-specific metadata; generating a first modified communication directed to the internal recipients based in part on the communication, wherein the first modified communication includes a link to the shared version of the attachment at the shared document workspace and the attachment for the internal recipients, wherein the link to the shared version of the attachment at the shared document workspace is defined by a message identification specific to a thread associated with the communication and selection of the link to the shared version of the attachment at the shared document workspace operates to access the shared version of the attachment at the shared document workspace; releasing the first modified communication to the internal recipients including the attachment to assure that the internal recipients who are offline still have access to the attachment and the link to the shared version of the attachment at the shared document workspace; and releasing the communication to the external recipients including the attachment without the link.