NETWORK DEVICE AND E-MAIL REQUEST PROCESSING METHOD

摘要

Embodiments of the present invention provide a network device and a method for processing an email request. The network device includes a communications interface and a processor. The communications interface is configured to communicate with a client device and an email server. The processor is configured to receive a first request sent by the client device, where the first request is used to acquire a portion of an email message. The processor converts the first request into a request used to acquire the entire email message; after receiving the email message that is in encoded form and that is returned according to the converted request by the email server, analyzes the email message to obtain encoding information of the email message; decodes the email message according to the encoding information, so as to obtain the portion, in decoded form, of the email message; and forwards the portion of the email message to the client device.