T-Mobile T Mobile Color Sidekick Phone Instructions Manual

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Note: If you change the sort order from the default (descending by date), after you leave the Email application 
and then return to it, the sort order will remain the way you last set it.
Read an Email
1From your Inbox (or another folder), click either the From or Subject of the message. 
You can also open an email directly from the Jump page by clicking the email’s From, Subject, or Date.
2Once you’ve read your email, you...

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Send a New Message
1Click the New Message link in the sidebar. The New Message page opens:
Note: If you are on the Jump page, you can open the New Message page directly by clicking New Message 
in the Email section of the page.
2Compose your message.
•From field – If you have set up POP3 accounts, then you can choose which address you want to use to 
send the email from the drop-down list in this field. 
•To field – Type in...

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•Browse and Attach File buttons - if you want to attach a file from your local desktop or laptop computer’s 
hard drive, click the Browse button to open your local file selection dialog box. You can select up to 36 
files (including photos), for no more than 3 MB. Click Attach once you’ve selected a file.
•Message body – Type your message; there are no limits to how long a message body can be.
•Signature – Edit or use the...

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Attach Files to a Message
1From the New Message page, just above the Message field, click Browse button.
2A standard dialog box appears, allowing you to navigate your local file system and select a file to send. With 
the file highlighted, select Open. The file name appears in the Browse box. Click Attach.
3The filename(s) is now listed in the Attachments field in the New Message page and the total size of 
attachments.
4If...

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Message Management
To control automatic saving of sent emails:
1Click Settings and Folders in the Email sidebar. This opens the Settings page; the Message Management 
tab is selected by default:
2In the Sent Messages section, check the box if you want copies of your sent mail saved to your Sent folder 
(the box is not checked by default).
If you do not want copies of your sent mail saved, clear the check box.
3Click Save at...

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3Under the Message Management tab, in the AUTOMATIC MESSAGE MANAGEMENT section, select one 
of the following options:
•Never automatically discard messages. Selecting this option means that you will manually manage 
your messages. This option is selected by default.
•Automatically discard messages older than 7 days. Selecting this option means that if there is no room 
for an incoming message, messages older than seven days...

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2Select the Folders tab. This opens the Folders page, where all current folders are listed, along with the 
number of messages in each folder and the folder size.
3To add a new folder, click Add Folder in the lower-right corner of the page. In the box provided, type the 
name of the new folder. Be sure and read the guidelines for folder names listed on the page (spaces and 
underscores are allowed, but punctuation is not)....

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Accounts
Click Accounts from the sidebar to open the Accounts page. From this page you can set up preferences for your 
device email account, as well as add up to three POP email accounts:
Primary Account
If you have one or more POP accounts set up (as in the illustration above), then you specify your “primary” 
account from this page. This will be the account that you send email from by default (you can always manually...

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•Reply-to address – the address to which replies will be sent
•Reply-to name – the name displayed for the reply-to address
•Signature – limit to 256 characters or less; four lines max recommended
POP Accounts
The Accounts screen is where you set up POP3 email accounts from which email can be retrieved. You can 
specify up to three (3) POP3 accounts.
To add a POP3 account:
1Click Accounts in the Email sidebar. This opens the...

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9If you want mail collected from this account, leave the Collect mail from this account box checked. If you 
don’t want mail collected, click the check box to clear it.
10When the form is complete, click More Options.
11Complete the signature and name information:
• From address – the email address that want to appear in the From field on mail sent through this account
• From Name – your name as you want it to appear on mail...