Enhanced electronic mail system including methods and apparatus for identifying mime types and for displaying different icons
CA 2423407 A1 · Owner: Intellinet, Inc. · Inventors: Baker, Michelle
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Electronic mail client software (16) has a mailbox displayer (14) which lists messages together with an icon for each message where the icon is associated with the MIME type of the message. Mail which contains file attachment (18) is listed in the inbox with an icon indicative of the type of file attached to the mail. The mailbox displayer interprets the MIME type and selects the appropriate icon either from the icon registry in the OS or from a directory of icons maintained by the email client software. If there is no appropriate icon in the directory of icons, the mailbox displayer uses icon image data contained in a subpart of the MIME message if it is available. Otherwise no , …
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