International Business Machines Corporation

Rajat Jain

William M Edmonds

Ahmed M Omar

Maintaining the integrity of email authorship including receiving, by a receiving email client, an email message containing content created by a sender; identifying, in dependence upon the email message, an edit authority value; receiving, from a recipient of the email message, an instruction to forward the received email message; receiving, from the recipient, an instruction to edit the content contained in the received email message; and determining, in dependence upon the edit authority value, whether to allow the recipient to edit the content; if the recipient is allowed to edit the content, determining, in dependence upon the edit authority value, whether to enforce edit tracking in the content; and forwarding the email message with the recipient's edits tracked if edit tracking is enforced; or forwarding the email message with the recipient's edits untracked if edit tracking is not enforced.

Maintaining the integrity of email authorship

A method, system and computer-usable medium for managing electronic mail (email) attachments. An email message comprising a first recipient list and a first file attachment is received from a sender. A response email is generated, comprising a second recipient list. The first recipient list and the second recipient list are compared and a third recipient list is generated comprising recipients that are listed on the second recipient list, but not on the first. The email response is then transmitted to all recipients that are on the second recipient list but not on the third list, and the email response and the first file attachment is sent to the recipients on the third recipient list.

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