Enter the Filter Details Keep in mind that the purpose of an email filter is to look for certain types of email and somehow handle them differently from the rest of the email. Usually this means filtering out unwanted email and promptly sending it to the trash. A good example is credit card offers, which are much easier to stop in email form than in their traditional snail mail form. To create a filter that filters out credit card offers, you must look for certain pieces of information in the email message. But first, you must name the filter you're about to create.
NOTE
Filter names aren't allowed to have spaces, but you can use capitalization to give them more meaningful names .
To name the new filter, enter the name in the
Filter Name edit field. The next block of input fields is what really defines the filter. These fields allow you to specify exactly what information you are looking for and in what combinations you expect it. You are basically setting individual conditions that must be met for the message to get filtered. You can then declare whether
any or
all of the conditions must be met for the filtering to take place. Within the conditions, you specify a particular part of the message such as the
From, Sent To/Cc, Subject , or
Body part. In the second field you indicate whether it
contains or
does not contain the information in order to get filtered. And finally, you enter the actual text that describes the condition.
In this example, I created a filter called
CreditKiller to filter out spam offering me new credit deals. Because this kind of spam comes in many guises, my filter has several conditions. The first condition says, in effect, that the Web Client is to search the
From field of all incoming email; if this field contains the characters
Visa , the filter should be activated and such email should be routed to a special folder. The other conditions of my filter look for the text
credit card and
APR in the
Subject line. If any of these conditions is met by an incoming email message, the filter moves the message to the specified folderin this case, the
Deleted Items folder.
After entering the filter conditions, you specify where qualifying messages are to go to be filtered. The
Deleted Items folder is the proper destination for unwanted email, although you can also create filters that separate work from personal email, for example, and route it to other folders.
The final option on the
Add Filter page allows you to specify whether filtered messages are forwarded from the BlackBerry Web Client to your handheld. In the case of unwanted email messages, you definitely want this option set to
Do not forward messages to handheld .
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By default, the BlackBerry Web Client forwards all unfiltered messages to your device. You typically create filters that prevent certain messages from being forwarded to your handheld. However, you can also flip the tables and use filters in an opposite manner. For example, you can click Forward messages to handheld on the Filters page to change the default behavior so that messages are not sent to your device when no filters apply. Then you can create filters to only let through certain messages. If you want to be more guarded about what email makes it to your device, this isn't a bad way to set up your email filters.
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