Change of an archived email property in the email system local store

A computer program product, comprising a computer readable non-transitory medium having a computer readable program code embodied therein, the computer readable program code adapted to be executed to implement a method in a computer system comprising an email message system that manages a plurality of email messages and an email archive system, wherein the email message system supports creation of user email accounts accessible by an email message client that executes on a client computer that a user of the client computer having an email account operates to manage the user's email messages accessible via the user's email account, the user's email messages comprising at least a portion of the plurality of email messages, the method comprising:

• (A) creating a local email archive store on the client computer to store at least one archived email message having at least one property that includes a first setting, wherein the archived email was previously stored in a local email store on the client computer and was replaced with a short cut identifier that was stored in the local email store on the client computer, the short cut identifier including first information for retrieving the archived email message from the local email archive store, and second information comprising the first setting for managing the at least one property associated with the at least one archived email according to the first setting;
• (B) editing the at least one property associated with the at least one archived email message, updating the second information of the short cut identifier stored in the local email store to reflect the edit to the at least one property associated with the at least one archived email message.

A computer system that manages a plurality of email messages and supports creation of user email accounts accessible by an email message client that executes on a client computer that a user of the client computer having an email account operates to manage the user's email messages accessible via the user's email account, the user's email messages comprising at least a portion of the plurality of email messages, the system comprising:

• an email message system for managing a plurality of email messages, an email archive system having a plurality of archive servers for archiving at least one of the plurality of email messages, the email message system having an email application that executes on each of a plurality of client computers, each of the plurality of client computers having a local email store, an email archive client, and a local email archive store,
• wherein the local email store for each of the plurality of client computers stores a short cut identifier in place of an email message that was previously stored in the local email store, the email message currently being stored as an archived email message in the local email archive store of the one of the plurality of client computers by the email archive system, the short cut identifier including information for retrieving the archived email message from the local email archive store;
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• the email archive client, in response to a user of the one of the plurality of client computers setting at least one of a reminder on the archived email message or a color flag on the archived email message, configured to update the short cut identifier stored in the local email store to reflect the at least one of the reminder set on the archived email message in the local email archive store, or the color flag set on the archived email message in the local email archive store.