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 can take any of the following actions:
• Reply to the message by clicking Reply or Reply All. This opens a New Message page, with the From and 
To fields automatically filled in.
• Forward the message by clicking Forward. This opens a New Message page, with the forwarded message 
included. If the forwarded message contained any attachments, you can remove those you don’t want to 
include in the forwarded message by first checking the attachment and then clicking the Remove 
Checked button.
• Discard the message by clicking Discard.
• Move the email to a different folder by highlighting a folder in the Move to box at the top or bottom of the 
page and clicking Go.
• Add the sender to your address book by clicking Add Contacts after their email address in the From field.
• Proceed to your next message by clicking Next Message at the top of the page; or go to the previous 
message by clicking Previous Message at the top of the page (these options will only appear if you have 
a next or previous message).
3To close the email and return to a folder, simply click the folder name in the Email sidebar.
Open an Attachment
You know an email has an attachment if there is a paper clip icon just to the left of the message ( ). All 
attachments are listed as links and display below the message body. Click the link to open or save the 
attachment.
Graphic attachments of the following formats are displayed under the message body:
•.gif
•.jpg, .jpeg
•.png 
						

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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 the email address of the person to whom you are sending the email.
•CC and BCC fields – Optional fields.
•Subject field – Type your subject line; it can be up to 256 characters long.
•Attach  Photos button – if you want to attach a photo from your Photo gallery to send as an 
attachment to the email, click this button to open your photos. Check the box(es) for the photo(s) you 
want to attach, then click Send Checked. You are returned to the Compose Message page, with the 
selected photos now attached. 
						

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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 default signature. Signatures can be up to 256 characters and it is 
recommended that you limit yourself to four lines. Set your default signature on the Accounts page, as 
described in 
Device Account on page 178.
3To  send the message, click Send.
4To  save the message as a draft, click Save as Draft. You’ll be returned to your Inbox. You can click Drafts in 
the sidebar at any time to complete and send the message, or discard it.
5To  discard the message, click Cancel. You’ll be returned to your Inbox.
Attach Photos and Files to a Message
You can attach up to 36 files (including photos) to each new email message, not to exceed 3 MB. (Note that 
these limits do not apply to messages with attachments that you forward.) If you have selected the Email setting 
to Save copies of outgoing messages in Sent folder, then your attachments will be saved with the copy of 
your message.
Attach Gallery Photos to a Message
1From the New Message page, just above the Message field, click Attach  Photos button.
2Your Photo Gallery appears. Check each photo you want to attach. (Note: If you want to attach a digital 
photo you’ve taken with a stand-alone camera, then follow the instructions in 
Attach Files to a Message on 
page 174.)
3When finished selecting, click Send Checked.
4Your New Message page reappears, with the photo name(s) listed in the Attachments field.
5If you want to select more Photos, click Attach  Photos to repeat the photo selection process. If you try 
to add more files than the space and number limits allow, you’ll receive a message letting you know. Also, as 
you add attachments, you’ll be able to see, just below the Attachments field, how much space they take up:
6From the New Message page, if you want to remove any of the attached photos, check the photo name(s) 
and then click Remove Checked.
7When you’ve finished composing your message, click Send. If you change your mind and do not want to 
send the message, click Cancel. 
						

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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 you want to select more files to send, click Browse to repeat the file selection process. If you try to add 
more files than the space and number limits allow, you’ll receive a message letting you know. Also, as you 
add attachments, you’ll be able to see, just below the Attachments field, how much space they take up (see 
illustration above).
5From the New Message page, if you want to remove any of the attached files, check the filename(s) and then 
click Remove Checked.
6When you’ve finished composing your message, click Send. If you change your mind and do not want to 
send the message, click Cancel.
Web Email Settings
There are three categories of email settings that you can configure for your Web account:
•Message Management – In this section you can specify whether or not you want a copy of sent mail 
saved in your Sent folder, and select an option for managing your mailbox to avoid having incoming mail 
bounced due to a full mailbox. Your mailbox limit is 6 MB.
•Attachments – In this section you specify which attachments you want downloaded with your emails. 
This feature will help you manage your mailbox size.
•Folders – By default, the following 5 email folders are created for your Web email: Inbox, Trash, Saved, 
Drafts, and Sent. These folders are not editable, but you can create up to 20 folders that you can then edit 
or discard. 
						

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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 the bottom of the page.
To manage your messages:
1Click Settings and Folders in the Email sidebar.
2Under the Message Management tab, in the TRASH MANAGEMENT section, check the Automatically 
empty the Trash box if you want your Trash to be emptied automatically every night no matter how full your 
mailbox is. This option is not checked by default. 
						

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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 in all your folders (except Saved and Drafts 
folders) will be automatically deleted (
not moved to Trash first). 
•Automatically discard messages of any age. Selecting this option means messages of any age will be 
discarded to make room for new messages. “Read” messages are discarded before “unread” messages.
4Click Save at the bottom of the page.
Attachments
You control the size and type of attachments that are downloaded with emails from this page: 
Folders
You can create up to 20 folders, in addition to the 5 system folders (Inbox, Saved, Drafts, Sent, and Trash).
To add an email folder:
1Click Settings and Folders in the Email sidebar to open the Settings page. 
						

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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).
4Click Add the Folder. You’re returned to the Folders page, where the folder you just created is now added to 
your list of folders.
To edit an existing email folder:
1Click Settings and Folders in the Email sidebar to open the Settings page, then select the Folders tab. 
2The names of editable folders are displayed in editable text boxes. Make whatever changes you wish to the 
folder names, then click Save Changes. To discard your edits, click Cancel.
To discard an email folder:
1Click Settings and Folders in the Email sidebar to open the Settings page, then select the Folders tab. 
2Click Discard opposite the folder you want to delete. A warning page appears, informing you that all emails 
in the folder will be deleted along with the folder.
3To complete the discard, click Discard. You are returned to the Folders page; the discarded folder no longer 
appears.
If you decide to keep the folder and the messages, click Cancel. 
						

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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 
change the From field in a new email message). 
In the example above, the device email is the primary account since the option Send mail from your device 
address by default is selected. To change your primary account to a your POP account, simply select the Send 
mail from this address by default option for that account, then click Save.
Device Account
For your device account, you can edit the following information by clicking Edit Device Account.
•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 sent through this account 
						

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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 Accounts page.
2Click New POP Account in the lower-right corner of the page. The POP Account page opens:
3Type your Login name in the box provided.
4Type your email POP server name. If you do not know the server name, you can obtain this information from 
the POP3 email service provider. Also, refer to 
Add a POP3 Account on page 99 for more information.
5Fill in the email server Port; leave as 110 unless you know it is different.
6Type your email password.
7If you want the email to be removed from the POP3 server as it’s collected and sent to your device, check the 
Remove mail from server as it’s collected box. By default, email retrieved from a POP3 server will remain 
on the POP3 server.
8Select the folder you want mail from this server to be delivered to; Inbox is selected by default. 
						

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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 sent through this account
• 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
12Click Save when the page is complete. You’re returned to the Accounts page, with the new POP3 accounted 
listed.
13Before your account is completely set up, the validity of the POP3 email account will be verified. If there is a 
problem with the account information you provided, an error message will appear at the top of the POP3 
accounts page. Click Edit this account to try to fix the error or to delete the account.
To edit a POP3 email account:
1Click POP Accounts in the Email sidebar. This opens the POP Accounts page.
2Click Edit this Account opposite the account you want to edit. Your account information appears in an 
editable form.
3Make edits as you wish, then click Save. 
To delete a POP3 mail account:
1Click Accounts in the Email sidebar. This opens the Accounts page.
2Click Edit this Account opposite the account you want to discard. Your account information appears in an 
editable form.
3Click Discard. 
Collect Mail from POP3 Accounts
To collect mail from any POP3 mail accounts you have set up:
1Click Fetch POP Mail in the Email sidebar.
2Email from your POP3 accounts is automatically collected and filed in the folder specified in the account setup 
information.
Move Messages to Folders
You can move messages around within folders by doing the following:
1Open the folder the email is currently in, then check the box opposite the email. You can check as many 
messages as you wish.
2Open the Move checked to list box in the upper or lower-right corner. All folders (
except for the Drafts and 
Sent folders, and the folder the email currently is in) are shown in the list. 
3Highlight the folder into which you want to move the message. Then click Go.