Abstract: The present invention relates to electronic communication systems, and more specifically, to a method of and system for management of electronic mail or e-mail. E-mail use has become pervasive in western industry, and it is necessary to provide an efficient system and method for archiving the vast number of e-mail messages that are received in business environments. The invention intercepts messages before they arrive in the corporate e-mail system, using an e-mail gateway. E-mail is stored as a flat-file in a central storage device and tools are provided to allow searching, previewing, replaying or re-delivering, replying, forwarding and re-delivery of those stored messages. The replaying, replying, forwarding and re-delivery tools all employ the User's existing message delivery system.