Blackberry 8800 manual Hide sent messages, Block MMS messages

6. Click Save.

To restore messages, set the Keep Messages field to a longer period of time. Messages that you received on your BlackBerry® device within the set period of time appear in a message list.

Hide sent messages

1.In a message list, press the Menu key.

2.Click Options.

3.Click General Options.

4.Set the Hide Sent Messages field to Yes.

5.Press the Menu key.

6.Click Save.

Note: If you set your device to hide sent messages, sent messages continue to appear in the history of SMS text messages.

Block MMS messages

1.In the device options, click MMS.

2.In the Message Filtering section, select the Reject Anonymous Messages check box or the Reject Advertisements check box.

3.Press the Menu key.

4.Click Save.

Block incoming messages

If your BlackBerry® device is associated with an email account that uses a BlackBerry Enterprise Server, you might not be able to block PIN messages from contacts in your organization. For more information, contact your system administrator.

1.In the device options, click Security Options.

2.Click Firewall.

3.Select the check box beside one or more message types.

4.Press the Menu key.

5.Click Save.

Note: Blocked messages might contribute to your wireless service plan data usage. You can prevent messages from being forwarded to your device without contributing to data usage by turning off email message forwarding or using email message filters.

Reset a blocked message counter

1.In the device options, click Security Options.

2.Click Firewall.

3.Highlight a message type.

4.Press the Menu key.

5.Click Reset Count or Reset All Counts.

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