Electronic mail forwarding service

摘要

A system and method are disclosed that enable an email service provider to implement an email forwarding service without losing associated page views. In one embodiment, rather than forwarding the entire email message, the email forwarding service generates a summary email message, and sends this summary email message to the forwarding email address pre-specified by the subscriber. This summary email message includes a link that is selectable by the user to view the original email message on a web site of the email service provider. Thus, even if the forwarding email address is hosted externally, the subscriber still views the full email message on a web site of the provider of the email forwarding service.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented method of forwarding email messages, the method comprising the following operations performed by one or more processors:
accessing a first email message addressed to a first email address of a user, the first email message containing message content; generating a second email message based on the first email message and a universal resource locator (URL) identifying the first email message, the second email message lacking a first portion of the message content of the first email message, while including a second portion of the message content of the first email message and a link that is selectable to access the entire first email message via the URL; sending the second email message to a second email address of the user that is different than the first email address; and in response to a selection of the link in the second email message, generating and serving a web page including the first email message and at least one advertisement.