System for managing electronic mail including disabling replying to a given email and related methods

A method of managing electronic mail (email) from among a plurality of email recipients, the method comprising:

• using a processor cooperating with a memory configured to store an email reply-impermissible flag for each of a plurality of email conversation threads, the email reply-impermissible flag being indicative of an already in-progress reply for a given email having a corresponding email conversation thread associated therewith from a user device associated with a given email recipient from among the plurality thereof, the processor being used to
• obtain an email reply status query for the given email, and
• determine if the email reply-impermissible flag is set for the corresponding email conversation thread based upon the email reply status query message for the given email, and if so, cooperate with the user device to disable replying to the given email, otherwise cooperate with the user device to permit replying to the given email.

A non-transitory computer readable medium for managing electronic mail (email) from among a plurality of email recipients, the non-transitory computer readable medium comprising computer executable instructions that when executed by a processor cooperating with a memory configured to store an email reply-impermissible flag for each of a plurality of email conversation threads, wherein the email reply-impermissible flag is indicative of an already in-progress reply for a given email having a corresponding email conversation thread associated therewith from a user device associated with a given email recipient from among the plurality thereof, causes the processor to perform operations comprising:

• obtaining an email reply status query for the given email having a corresponding email conversation thread associated therewith;
• and
• determining if the email reply-impermissible flag is set for the corresponding email conversation thread based upon the email reply status query message for the given email, and if so, cooperate with the user device to disable replying to the given email, otherwise cooperate with the user device to permit replying to the given email.