Citrix Systems, Inc.
Email platform with automated contact save

Abstract:

A system and method that automatically saves a message sender's contact information in the local contacts of a message receiver. A described method includes receiving, at a second email client installed on a user device, a message from a first email client via an email server and analyzing the message at the second email client to determine whether the message triggers an automated contact save. In in response to determining that the message triggers the automated contact save and the message includes a requisite contact information of the sender, saving the requisite contact information in a set of local contacts on the user device. In response to determining that the message triggers the automated contact save and the message does not include the requisite contact information of the sender, retrieving the requisite contact information of the sender from an identity server and saving the requisite contact information in the set of local contacts on the user device.