1. A method for handling digital documents in a digital document processing system, wherein the digital document processing system includes a control system having a document storage for the digital documents, a dedicated document email server that stores email items, wherein each email item is linked to a corresponding digital document in the document storage and where each email item stores the corresponding digital document's processing status, at least one document processing device connected to the control system, and a plurality of user workstations that each include a respective email client, wherein the plurality of user workstations and the control system include respective devices that enable bi-directional communication through a network, the method comprising the steps of: storing and managing the digital documents in the document storage, wherein each of the digital documents are owned by one of the users of the plurality of user workstations; operating the dedicated document email server to generate and maintain therein a respective email item for each digital document in the document storage; accessing the generated email items using the respective email client on the plurality of user workstations, wherein the respective email client includes a dedicated email folder coupled to a particular user account in the dedicated document email server; using the at least one document processing device to perform a document processing operation on one of the digital documents in the document storage that changes the digital document's processing status; and updating the stored corresponding digital document's processing status in the generated email item in the dedicated document email server and the document storage, wherein the updating dynamically reflects the one of the digital document's actual changed processing status.
1. A method for handling digital documents in a digital document processing system, wherein the digital document processing system includes a control system having a document storage for the digital documents, a dedicated document email server that stores email items, wherein each email item is linked to a corresponding digital document in the document storage and where each email item stores the corresponding digital document's processing status, at least one document processing device connected to the control system, and a plurality of user workstations that each include a respective email client, wherein the plurality of user workstations and the control system include respective devices that enable bi-directional communication through a network, the method comprising the steps of: storing and managing the digital documents in the document storage, wherein each of the digital documents are owned by one of the users of the plurality of user workstations; operating the dedicated document email server to generate and maintain therein a respective email item for each digital document in the document storage; accessing the generated email items using the respective email client on the plurality of user workstations, wherein the respective email client includes a dedicated email folder coupled to a particular user account in the dedicated document email server; using the at least one document processing device to perform a document processing operation on one of the digital documents in the document storage that changes the digital document's processing status; and updating the stored corresponding digital document's processing status in the generated email item in the dedicated document email server and the document storage, wherein the updating dynamically reflects the one of the digital document's actual changed processing status. 2. The method according to claim 1 , further including a step of synchronizing the document storage and the dedicated document email server, wherein the synchronizing dynamically reflects manipulation of an email item in the dedicated email folder of an email client in the document processing operation on the corresponding digital document.