1. A method comprising: providing, by a computing device, a messaging user interface comprising a message list portion and a message group display portion, each entry displayed in the message list portion corresponding to a message of a plurality of messages, each message having one or more attributes and corresponding values, the message group display portion comprising a number of user-selectable controls, the user-selectable controls comprising a user-selectable contacts control to request a search for messages of the plurality having at least one attribute value in correspondence with a value from the user's contacts stored in an electronic address book of the user to group messages using information stored in the electronic address book of the user; receiving, by the computing device, input indicative of a selection of the contacts control; in response to receiving the input indicative of a selection of the contacts control: performing, by the computing device, the search of the plurality of messages for identifying a number of messages of the plurality having the at least one attribute value in correspondence with a value from the user's contacts stored in the electronic address book of the user, the search comprising, for each message of the plurality, comparing the at least one attribute value from the message with the information stored in the electronic address book of the user to make a determination whether there is a correspondence between the message and the information stored in the electronic address book of the user; analyzing, by the computing device, each of the number of identified messages to identify message groups, each identified message group comprising multiple messages, of the number of identified messages, having at least one common attribute value found in each of the multiple messages and in the information stored in the electronic address book of the user; and updating, by the computing device, the message group display portion to display an indicator for each identified message group, each identified message group's indicator indicating the at least one common attribute value of the message group and being selectable by the user to initiate an automatic message selection operation.