摘要 |
A standards-based e-mail client (170), such as an IMAP-compliant client, provides access to user data of non-e-mail applications of a unified messaging system (100), such as to a user's personal greeting (161) of a voi ce mail application (160), a user's data (141) that is used by a Web messaging application (140) to construct the user's home page, and to a user's choice of a fax machine (180) for printing faxes and any faxes enqueued (151) in a fax messaging application (150). An association is established in an e-mail serv er (130) of the system between an application and a folder (191) of the user's mailbox (190) by means of the name given to the folder. For example, the nam e 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 (200,400,600) the folder, the e-mail server retrieves (202,402,602) the corresponding user data (e.g., personal greeting, home page data, enqueued faxes) from the associated application and presents (206,406,606) it in the form of an e-mail message to the client. In response to the e-mail client storing (300,500,700) an e-mail message to the folder, the e-mail server provides (306,506,706) the message contents as the corresponding user data to the associated application.
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