Managing Mail 175Define to Ignoreor Receive M Managing Mail 13 Define to Ignoreor Receive M 13 Sprint PCSWireless Web MManaging MailFilter StringsYour phone filters e-mail based on information in their To,From, and Subject fields, called a filter string. You create afilter string by listing the words you want your phone to findand separating them by either a comma or a space. Each wordin the filter string is joined by an implicit OR; your phone addsthe logical connectors like AND or OR.To create a more complex filter, you can define filter strings forthe To, From, and Subject fields. Your phone joins the filterstrings for these fields using an implicit AND, and adds thelogical connector for you.For example, you might want to receive only e-mail itemsfrom John Smith (jsmith@aol.com) or Jack Jones(jjones@aol.com) concerning the Apollo Project. You wouldcreate the following filter strings: In the To field: jsmith@aol.com, jjones@aol.com In the Subject field: Apollo ProjectYour phone interprets this as, “Accept e-mail items about theApollo Project from John Smith or Jack Jones. Do not accept e-mail items from other people. Do not accept e-mail items fromJohn or Jack about any other subject.”When you define a string, your phone searches for anyinstance of that sequence of characters. For example, if youdefine a filter that retrieves only e-mail items with the string“info,” appropriate matches would include “info,”“rainforest” and “kinfolk.”
