Managing potentially phishing messages in a non-web mail client context

A computerized method, implemented by a service provider accommodated on a server, for managing treatment of one or more digital communications when accessed via a non-web mail client, the method comprising:

• upon receiving a digital communication at the non-web mail client associated with an intended recipient of the digital communication, applying filtering heuristics to determine whether the digital communication is an uninvited message or a legitimate message, wherein the non-web mail client has no association with the service provider;;
• when the digital communication is determined to be an uninvited message, marking the digital communication as unsafe;
• replacing the unsafe digital communication with a warning message, wherein content of the unsafe digital communication is not revealed within the warning message;
• instructing the non-web mail client to surface a representation of the warning message within a listing rendered in a user interface (UI) display, wherein the listing includes one or more representations of digital communications determined to be legitimate messages, and wherein the UI display rendered by the non-web mail client cannot be reconfigured by the service provider that manages the user's account;
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• upon receiving a user-initiated selection of the representation of the warning message, communicating instructions to the non-web mail client to present the warning message to the recipient and withhold revealing content of the unsafe digital communication, wherein the warning message provides directions to access the content of the unsafe digital communication.

One or more computer-readable device having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon that, when executed, perform a method for notifying a user, via a user-interface (UI) display rendered by a non-web mail client, that a potentially phishing email has arrived at an account of the user, the method comprising:

• generating a first storage location that is dedicated to persist one or more digital communications identified as potentially phishing emails, wherein the first storage location provides a physical memory location separate from a second storage location that persists digital communications identified as legitimate;
• instructing the non-web mail client to render a first folder within the UI display, wherein the first folder maps to the first storage location, wherein the non-web mail client has no association with a service provider;;
• detecting an indication implemented by the user to access the first folder;
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• instructing the non-web mail client to render representations of the one or more identified digital communications, wherein the representations include metadata related to content of the one or more identified digital communications.