Junk Email on Sidekick

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HOW TO BLOCK FROM GET JUNK EMAIL ON MY SIDEKICK EMAIL? Someone email me with files and they wont stop. DAMNIT. Can anyone tell me how to block it?
 
TheXandieBoy said:
HOW TO BLOCK FROM GET JUNK EMAIL ON MY SIDEKICK EMAIL? Someone email me with files and they wont stop. DAMNIT. Can anyone tell me how to block it?
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:dunno: I advise you to call customer service to discuss with technology support. I hope not, I will get it from someone else. I just got my new page sidekick and love it...
 
Man! hope you not get junk email from online toward your sidekick ?? I dont use that for my sidekick to stay away from junk emails.
 
Ugh! That sucks kiddo. :(

I've been using Spambayes program to filter out spams for my Microsoft Outlook and it works great. Now it'd be nice if they can do the same thing for pagers.
 
i had sidekick since, never bother me junk email.. what if one of ur friend email the junk and spread ur email in there too.. never know..
 
Sabrina said:
:dunno: I advise you to call customer service to discuss with technology support. I hope not, I will get it from someone else. I just got my new page sidekick and love it...
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like sidekick already?????:)
 
I've had the same problem, and it stopped.... first I called tmobile to let them know of this issue, and told them that I never gave out my tmail address to randome junk websites. And then I was directed to go to the www.tmail.com and set up filters (oddly you do it for text messaging, but apparently it also applies to your tmail account) -- I did that, and set it to delete those messages instead of forwarding to my mail box or whatever. I made filters for such subject lines "document" "xxx" and many other commonly used terms in junk mail subject lines. It worked for me.
 
Sweet_KJ said:
I've had the same problem, and it stopped.... first I called tmobile to let them know of this issue, and told them that I never gave out my tmail address to randome junk websites. And then I was directed to go to the www.tmail.com and set up filters (oddly you do it for text messaging, but apparently it also applies to your tmail account) -- I did that, and set it to delete those messages instead of forwarding to my mail box or whatever. I made filters for such subject lines "document" "xxx" and many other commonly used terms in junk mail subject lines. It worked for me.
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What if your friend tried to send you a "penis" joke and that filter removed it before you could get it? :(
 
TweetyBird said:
like sidekick already?????:)
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Yes I love it. It is very helpful for me because I can send text message to my son's cellure phone. My son can chat with me via AIM to my sidekick to remind me to get something food on the way home after work.

Technology is so amazed !
 
VamPyroX said:
What if your friend tried to send you a "penis" joke and that filter removed it before you could get it? :(
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Well I told my friends to never send me junk or chain emails to me on the tmail... if they wanted to, they should send to my regular email. Why bother getting emails that take up my space on my Sidekick? Just IMO.
 
Sweet_KJ said:
Well I told my friends to never send me junk or chain emails to me on the tmail... if they wanted to, they should send to my regular email. Why bother getting emails that take up my space on my Sidekick? Just IMO.
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I agreed with you definetly on that one.. I use my tmail.com for emergency, or to see what s going on while I am not at home.. if important enough but not emergency its fine :)

I use my sidekick often because of my son's treatments in boston.. :)

Im staying overnight at the hospital tomorrow night with my son.. first time I will be away from the baby :( LOL oh boy..

Wendy
 
Blackberry, Blackberry, Blackberry! (The modern ones, that is)

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( More info at http://www.marky.com/hearing/ and at "RIM Forum" at http://www.howardforums.com Mobile Phone Forums, make sure to see the sticky posts under my name)

I can whitelist any email address, or blacklist any email address. I can even do the following:
(1) Make only certain email addresses vibrate
(2) Make other email addresses silently arrive
(3) Make yet other email addresses automatically discarded

Make sure you choose a provider that provides these features minimum.

Some features are not included and have to be purchased third party (like software you have to install on the Blackberry yourself using a cable between a computer and the Blackberry). I also purchase my own text-to-voice service at www.imbot.com and also purchase my own voice-to-text alpha-style paging at www.dictomail.com a voicemail box that automatically converts all voicemails to emails and sends them to me alpha-dispatch-style .... and realtime live relay calls (without a TDD) using MCI Wireless IP Relay which works on Blackberry (just make sure you read up on HowardForums first!). And FOUR chat networks (AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo) from www.webmessenger.com ... MCI Wireless IP Relay also works on Blackberry too. (It needs a program called Idokorro MobileSSH ... which is expensive ... but you can nicely ask for a deaf discount at www.idokorro.com 's own telnet/SSH client and they may give you one.) And now I have a color web browser too. (probably better than the one on the Sidekick now). Much better battery life, I can be continuously logged onto AIM or MSN for 100+ hours nonstop, which is 4 days continuous, without a battery charge, and vibrates when I get a message. (I do keep separate buddy lists, so that I only keep important contacts on my Blackberry, so I am not disturbed during the day... or I simply log off)

Yes, it's not an all-in-one package, I have to buy all this separately, it does get expensive, but it becomes the ultimate deaf warrior wireless device. And I do get unlimited airtime, the keyboard is now backlit, it's now color, etc. (Model 7280 Blackberry .... which replaced old 950). Network coverage is much better, I got reception between Toronto and Ottawa, and also between Ottawa and Quebec City by train. My old 950 would go dead between cities with no reception! And the thumb keyboard is really good, easy to learn to thumb touchtype on. I can thumb touchtype without looking at the screen, and I thumb type more than twice as fast as I can write on paper now!

At the moment, I prefer to use my own replaceable email address that automatically forwards to my Blackberry. If the email address becomes a disaster, I can just create a new email address. (You do have to find an email service that can forward.... usually a pay service, which is well worth it for me, I got @marky.com back in 1996 ...)

If $$$ is no object, this is the ultimate deaf warrior mobile wireless handheld. (Barebones is like about $50 per month unlimited... .but then you got to spend between $50 and $300 extra in software if you want the best....and about a few dollars extra per month if you want to purchase third party services. Purchased from 4 different companies, not all-in-one (because nobody offers all), installed on my Blackberry, costs me about $100 per month for everything now. That gives me unlimited Email, HTML, AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo, Live Relay, Live TDD, Telnet, SSH services, plus about 200 messges of Voice2Text service, plus I also get Text2Voice service. Also get IRC via Linux via Telnet connection too. (no one company provides all of this service on one Blackberry, I have to buy from several companies and install on the Blackberry ...)

I was going to go get a TREO handheld computer, but the Blackberry has better battery life, more crash proof, and can be left always-on for about 3-6 days nonstop (9 days is advertised, but 3 to 6 days real life use in my experience, which is roughly 100 hours), and the email is much faster -- no 15 minute polling, email is always continuously connected. Emails arrives at instant-message speed. Somebody clicks SEND on their computer, and then it shows up on my Blackberry wirelessly in mere seconds even halfway across the country.

Unlimited country wide roaming too (but costs extra to roam internationally). Meaning unlimited wireless long distance calls too. (as long as you get data-only searvice).

Give up maybe about 2 or 3 of the above features, and you can bring the costs down to $75 per month. Give up almost everything except limited email and WAP, you can pay only about $30 per month. (But who wants to stick with only limited email? No relay, no chat, no web, etc) All the software installation is a hassle at first before things are running smoothly. Someday this will be cheaper and easier and all-in-one. But I am not going to wait!

Sidekick is easier to set up at first, but it gets frustrating, email sometimes stop working, sometimes emails never arrive. But on my Blackberry -- emails always arrive pretty quickly and the battery lasts a long time. And the new Blackberry is lighter and smaller than Sidekick (4.8 ounce for the model 7280)
 
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I actually laughed when I saw this topic. A few months ago I got a weird email with an unusual attachment.. I emailed it to my computer, and bam, Norton pwned the email. Apparently it was home to a Win32 Netsky DMM virus, and fortunately I had a firewall. On the other hand, since my sidekick was configured to automatically open emails it had acquired this virus.. I now recieve much more spam than I did before, half of them from the virus sending a email to an invalid address or an person who caught the virus in an email i sent them. Fortunately I don't care and rather enjoy pressing the delete button (wish i could hear that beep)

dunno how computer literate you are, but if its ordinary spam it could possibly have an link at the bottom to 'unsubscribe'. A fun way to get revenge against someone you hate is subscribe their email to a ton of sites, appropriate or not :werd:
 
I never got junk emails on my sidekick. I had it for 2 yrs. I love my sidekick. Ive had experience with other pagers, they suck even blackberry.
 
Actually I had that similar ones too!! I couldn't able to do anything with that spams that keep coming till I finally call T-mobile and what they told me is to change new email address, that is it!! It will then hammer that spam!! But as long as dont do anything with ur email addy access in website in ur sk1 -3!!! so be careful... I was doing that which was stupid of me! :lol: But now I am at peace so was my sk2! Finally!! yayay!
 
annnd fools will try to call you thru ip relay to your aim sn.. happened to me other day I was like :pissed: so.. if they do call again just say I'm not interested and hang up simple as that ;)
 
Avoid using your last name as your Tmail address.
Example my last name is Jones. Jones@tmail.com is my address *EXAMPLE* A spam bot can and will try all kinds of addresses till they get it right and/or get a reply from you trying to stop the spam. For example, the bot will try Jones@Tmail.com, Jones@Aol.com, Jones@Gmail.com etc until it find email that works..
I had 300 spam e mails a day a few years ago because I used my last name for my t mail address, then I decided to call Tmobile and change it, and now I get no spam.
 
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