UNIFORM DISPLAY OF LINKED FILES AND ATTACHMENTS IN E-MAIL MESSAGES

摘要

A system and method for providing a display of attachments for an e-mail message includes receiving an e-mail message with a plurality of attachments at a server, where one of the attachments is a file and a second of the attachments is a link to a file provided by a third party service. A request from the e-mail server is sent to a thumbnail generation service to generate a preview thumbnail for each attachment, where each preview thumbnail has a uniform appearance. The e-mail message and the preview thumbnails generated by the thumbnail generation service are sent to a client computer for display.

主权项

1. A method for providing a display of attachments for an e-mail message, the method comprising:
receiving an e-mail message with a plurality of attachments at a server, wherein a first attachment in the plurality of attachments is a file and a second attachment in the plurality of attachments is a link to a file provided by a third party service; sending a request to a thumbnail generation service to generate a preview thumbnail for each of the plurality of attachments; receiving from the thumbnail generation service the preview thumbnails for each of the plurality of attachments, wherein the preview thumbnail for each of the plurality of attachments have a uniform appearance; and sending the e-mail message and the preview thumbnails for the plurality of attachments to a client computer for display.