I just got my first blackberry. I set it up to d/l my gmail email. It works great.

I have two icons on my blackberry desktop... one called "Messages" and one that is just my email...

The icon called "messages" is a union of all my SMS texts, my voicemail alerts, my missed calls AND my emails...

the email icon is JUST my emails...

I like having an icon that is just emails... is there a way for me to NOT show emails in my general "messages" app? Right now, I get so many emails that i am losing SMS text messages...

I would love to have one icon to see my mail and another icon to just show me NON-EMAIL messages... is this possible?

scott.

Welcome to the BB world.

I would like to do that too but haven't found a way to do it in the options menu. It seems silly to duplicate the emails in both places.

I also use gmail which forwards email to my BB. Works great and I can set up filters.

My buddy's BB has 2 separate icons, 1 to show his emails and 1 for his sms-es. His model is a 8707g. I would love that on my 7100g too, but I do not see this function on my software v4.1...

I have a 7130e, and I have the same problem. It's impossible to keep up with all of this messages when they are all in the same folder. I really hope someone has a solution for this.

I don't understand why they would give you a seperate email folder, yet still put the same duplicate emails into my messages folder.

The answer to this really should be a sticky, as its visited so often!

Its down to the theme you're using. Some operator's themes separate SMS/MMS messages into a separate mailbox, some dont.

I changed my theme to O2's as that has an SMS mailbox, an Email mailbox and a 'messages' mailbox. 'Messages' still has everything in it, but the other two have their respective types in them too, so I just hide the 'messages' icon.

To load another operator's theme please look back through the threads here, there is one I was part of about a week ago which had all the info in.

Rgds

Andy.

Thanks for the feedback Andy. Forgive my ignorance, but what is "another operator's theme?" If all of the messages still go into a "messages" folder, do you have to clear everything out in order for the envelope icon to go away?

Is there a setting for the envelope icon? In other words, I don't want to have the envelope icon appear everytime I get an email-I only want it to appear when I have a voicemail or a Text messge? Is this possible?