User Guide

Messages

For information about completing this task for a personal email account that you have on your BlackBerry smartphone (such as Google Mail™ or Windows Live™ Hotmail®), visit www.blackberry.com/docs/smartphones and click the link under Email Set-up.

1.On the Home screen, click the Messages icon.

2.Press the key > Options > Email Filters.

3.Press the key > New.

4.Type a name for the email filter.

5.Set the email filter options.

6.Press the key > Save.

Create an email filter based on a contact or subject

1.On the Home screen, click the Messages icon.

2.Highlight an email.

3.Press the key > Filter by > Sender or Subject.

4.Type a name for the email filter.

5.Set the email filter options.

6.Press the key > Save.

Options for email filters

Option

Description

 

 

From

Specify one or more contacts or email addresses that the

 

email filter should search for in the From field of your

 

email. Separate multiple contacts or email addresses

 

with a semicolon (;). To specify that the email filter should

 

search for all contacts or email addresses that contain

 

specific text, type the text and use an asterisk (*) as a

 

wildcard character to represent the rest of the contact or

 

email address.

 

 

Sent to

Specify one or more contacts or email addresses that the

 

email filter should search for in the Sent To field of your

 

email. Separate multiple contacts or email addresses

 

with a semicolon (;). To specify that the email filter should

 

search for all contacts or email addresses that contain

 

specific text, type the text and use an asterisk (*) as a

 

wildcard character to represent the rest of the contact or

 

email address.

 

 

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