摘要 |
A method and system for transferring electronic messages (email), includes creating a primary email message by a sender using a sender email program and transmitting a P2P request message to a recipient mail. The request contains at least one P2P connection. A P2P connection is established between a sender local host (12b) and a recipient local host (11a, 13a) for receiving the primary email message by the recipient local host (11a, 13a). To facilitate this connection and advise the sender about recipient availability, so that the P2P session may start up as soon as it is initiated by the sender, the P2P connection parameters include an instant messaging protocol address of the sender and an instant messaging protocol establishes the P2P connection between the sender local computer system (12b) and the recipient local computer system. Preferably this Instant Messaging protocol is the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP). |