email filtering based on social networking information

摘要

A system and machine-implemented method for automatically generating an email filter based on social networking groups, including receiving an indication of one or more social groups associated with a user, wherein each of the one or more social groups is associated with the user's account in a social networking service, determining, using the one or more computing devices, one or more contacts associated with each of the one or more social groups associated with the user at the social networking service, determining, using the one or more computing devices, one or more email addresses corresponding to each of the one or more contacts, generating an email filter according to the one or more email addresses and applying the generated email filter to an email list of a user.