Patent ID: 8886734

Claim:
A computer-implemented method of managing an email mailbox, the method comprising: presenting, by a computer, a user interface image including an email received from a first email address and a rule-creation interface object displayed with the email; receiving, by the computer, an instruction to establish a rule to take an action on each email message received from a first email address, wherein receiving the instruction includes receiving a single user input indicating that the user has selected the rule-creation interface object; determining, by the computer, that the first email address is associated with contact data; determining, by the computer, that the contact data is associated with a sender name and a second email address; applying, by the computer, the rule to take the action on each of a plurality of email messages, the plurality of email messages including at least one email message received from the first email address and at least one email message received from the second email address, wherein applying the rule to an email message includes adding the email message to a listing of email messages sent from the sender name; and presenting, by the computer, a user interface control that incorporates the sender name, the user interface control being operable to instruct the computer to present the listing of email messages sent from the sender name.