System and method for addressing messages

摘要

A method is provided for automatically using address information from a selected message to create a new message that is unrelated to the selected message in response to a user action, such as selecting one of a plurality of improved reply options. These improved reply options may include a “New Message To” command and a “New Message To All” command that do not establish a relationship between the reply message and the selected message that could be exploited by, for example, a threading service. In particular, these commands populate address fields of the new message with values from address fields of the selected message without populating any other fields that are used to identify relationships among messages.

主权项

1. A method for automatically creating a new email message in an email system comprising a threading service for establishing relationships between related email messages, the email system executing on a computer device, and wherein the new email message does not include any information that, to the threading service, would be indicative of a relationship between the new email message and a selected email message, the method comprising:
presenting, via a user interface of the computer device, a reply module comprising a plurality of reply options to reply to the selected email message and a plurality of reply options to generate a new email message; wherein the plurality reply options to reply to the selected message are selected from a group consisting of a reply message to sender only, are reply to all recipients and a reply to all in thread; wherein the plurality of reply options to generate the new email message are selected from a group consisting of a new message to and a new message to all; receiving a reply option selection to create the new email message using one or more addresses from the selected email message; automatically storing, by the email system executing on the computer device, in a memory buffer the one or more email addresses from the selected email message; automatically generating, by the email system executing on the computer device, the new email message, the new email message including at least one address field and a plurality of other fields, the plurality of other fields including a body field and at least one other field, wherein the new email message is unrelated to the selected email message and is generated with a new thread identifier; and automatically retrieving, by the email system executing on the computer device, from the memory buffer the one or more email addresses stored in the memory buffer and automatically populating the at least one address field of the new email message with the one or more email addresses stored in the memory buffer, wherein the email system refrains from populating any of the plurality of other fields of the new email message, including the at least one other field, with any information that, to the threading service, would be indicative of a relationship between the new email message and the selected email message.