The invention relates to a method for managing e-mail attachments in an e-mail application, said method making it possible, when opening an attachment using an editor application defined in accordance with the nature of said attachment, to edit a copy of said attachment and save the changes made to said copy as a modified version of said attachment; also to create a logical link between the modified version and the e-mail, said logical link allowing said modified version to be attached to said e-mail as a modified attachment
