| 摘要 |
A standards-based e-mail client, such as an IMAP-compliant client, provides access to user data of non-e-mail applications of a unified messaging system, such as to a user's personal greeting of a voice mail application, a user's data that is used by a Web messaging application to construct the user's home page, and to a user's choice of a fax machine for printing faxes and any faxes enqueued in a fax messaging application. An association is established in an e-mail server of the system between an application and a folder of the user's mailbox by means of the name given to the folder. For example, the name of a folder that is associated with a particular fax machine includes the telephone number of the fax machine. In response to the e-mail client opening the folder, the e-mail server retrieves the corresponding user data (e.g., personal greeting, home page data, enqueued faxes) from the associated application and presents it in the form of an e-mail message to the client. In response to the e-mail client storing an e-mail message to the folder, the e-mail server provides the message contents as the corresponding user data to the associated application.
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