30th November 2006

T-Mobile Email Spam Cleaner

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I had several friends with Sidekicks that had to notify everyone on their mailing list of their new @tmail.com address due to spam.

A Sidekick owner got fed up with this spam problem and did something about it - he wrote a simple free program:

T-Mobile Email Spam Cleaner

This simple Windows utility pulls mail from your My T-Mobile webmail
account, filters it based on blacklist and whitelist rules, then
forwards the good stuff along to your Sidekick. The program never
deletes anything, but merely moves spam to the Trash folder where you
can review it for false positives.

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  1. 1 On November 30th, 2006, Long/Lat said:

    Windowz ONLY? Sheesh….nice but limited. Hope you consider the APPLE folks, too!

    LL

  2. 2 On November 30th, 2006, Philip said:

    I have Blackberry 7290 and the carrier is T-Mobile. Need one cause we all get spam with junk e-mail on Blackberry too.

  3. 3 On November 30th, 2006, Peter M Robertson said:

    This was Danger’s response when I contacted them a while back…

    “Hello,

    Thank you for contacting Danger. It appears as though you received some what incorrect information. Let me clarify this a little for you -

    Danger does handle the email servers but as far as offering any services, this comes from your Service Provider (T-Mobile). You are a customer of T-Mobile, T-Mobile advertises our products and service that they want their customers to have. We put together software that T-Mobile approves/requests, so ultimately if T-Mobile does not want to offer SPAM filters for their customers, Danger cannot add this feature.

    Just to let you know, we have other Carriers that already have Spam Filters in place for their customers, so this should tell you that it is T-Mobile’s responsibility to request this feature for their customers.

    Hope that helps”

  4. 4 On December 1st, 2006, Long/Lat said:

    I attempted to send my first of this mornings 57 SPAMS to the “support@t-mail.com address and received a “BOUNCE” with 550 code “Unavailable or access denied.”

    So what’s the next step?

    LL

  5. 5 On December 1st, 2006, Maggie B. said:

    I called T-Mobile to complain about the spam I receive on my Sidekick II and asked if there was anything that could be done to block the spam. I was told by the T-Mobile representative that “Danger has not created spam-blocking software for the Sidekick devices”. It appears that each company is pointing the finger of responsibility at the other…

  6. 6 On December 1st, 2006, Margaret A-T. from Seattle, WA said:

    I tried to stop spams in my personal email of two. and have not getting spams on my pager, sidekick II. Good things!!

    About two mongh ago, I learn that after I clicked the webiste of deaf website. The website called http://www.deafvp.com. they warning people on other webiste http://www.deafnewspapers.com did warned all of us about spam through from http://www. deafvp.com. That’s how we need to stop to not pass anyone of their sidekick III or II. Either way you don’t put their email address nothing. The person have aware to use sidekick or Blueberry. Dont additional your additional on website (deafvp.com) too. Nothing just personal email. but they will ruin or mess up with your pager.

    I want to thank the person who warned me from http://www. deafnewspaper. com and the deaf name from Colorado. His name is Ken Davis who invented his program of and warning many issues about spams and scam and other issues. I really learn alot from deaf peoples from other states. Wonderful website. Don’t additional your names and address on http://www.deafvp.com whenever it will be stuck worse!

    Best way to not additional of your email into junkie spams through http://www.deafvp.com

    Margaret A-T.

  7. 7 On December 1st, 2006, Forrest Brown said:

    HI I want all of the spams stop sending to my email address…

  8. 8 On December 1st, 2006, jsg said:

    I attempted to send my first of this mornings 57 SPAMS to the “support@t-mail.com address and received a “BOUNCE” with 550 code “Unavailable or access denied.”

    So what’s the next step?

    LL

    Try support@tmail.com. I think you typed in the wrong email addy.

    JSG

  9. 9 On December 1st, 2006, n said:

    I love this idea! But is the whitelist necessary? The blacklist is so easy to update with unwanted addresses/keywords. However, the whitelist is not so easy for me as I receive emails from 2 different listserves on my pager, and I do not know everyone’s contacts from the listserves. Also, I use my pager address for resumes. So, perhaps, having a whitelist is a hindrance as much as receiving spam because “unknown but friendly” emails get directed to trash. I do not intend to spend my quality time in trashcan sifting messages!

  10. 10 On December 2nd, 2006, Roquel Wilson said:

    I am getting so sick of this T Mobile staff telling me theres notthing they can do about it… all this junk email is getting out of hand I personally think they need to hire a tech to develop a spam block on our emails so we can block them junk emails i am personally getting over 300 spams a day!! and its getting worst please please DO SOMETHING!!

  11. 11 On December 2nd, 2006, jsg said:

    Roquel, I think figured out why you were getting spams. When you sent the comment to me, you included your @tmail address. I could easily make money selling your email address to spammers and you can’t tracke it to me. But don’t worry, I won’t do that and I also removed your email address anyway.

    Please consider getting free “throwaway” email address from gmail, hotmail, yahoo for postings on websites and blogs.

    JSG

  12. 12 On December 4th, 2006, Forrest Brown said:

    Hi again….It seem works that delate the spams problem but still continue to revieve more junk mails in spam. I wish that continue to delate the spam as much as possible…I really enjoy sidekick, talking to all friends but not junk mails…thank u…Have a good day………….

  13. 13 On December 7th, 2006, Graeme Harrison said:

    First started getting spam from the UK a few days after filling out my information at http://www.deafvp.com so I deleted it, and the spam gradually ceased after awhile.

    However, the stock spam kicked off a couple of weeks ago. The best solution as far as I’m concerned would be to get a gmail address and have the gmail forwarded to your tmail because gmail has a killer spam filter and the forwarding is extremely quick. Change the account settings for TO and FROM in your Sidekick to the new gmail address.

    Once you verify everything is working smoothly for the next 4-6 weeks and ensure that everyone knows your new gmail addy, go to the tmail store and have them change your tmail addy. NOTE: Must disable forward from gmail to tmail til new tmail addy is set.

    Once you get your new tmail addy, do not share that addy with anyone, period. Use the gmail addy and reset the forwarding to that new tmail addy.

    Hope this helps.

  14. 14 On February 14th, 2007, DeafLinux said:

    Another thing to do is on your signature make sure you do not have @ on the e-mail.

    For example:

    President@greatidea.wz
    change it to President at greatidea.wz

    or

    President[at]greatidea.wz or President(*)greatidea.wz

    People will need to replace [at] to @ when sending e-mail.

    This will keep the spam bots from collecting your e-mail address.

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