Nokia 6500 slide - Message settings

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Message settings

General settings

General settings are common for text and multimedia messages.

Select Menu > Messaging > Message settings > General settings and from the
following options:

Save sent messages > Yes — to set your phone to save the sent messages in the
Sent items folder

Overwriting in Sent > Allowed — to set your phone to overwrite the old sent
messages with the new ones when the message memory is full. This setting is
shown only if you selected Save sent messages > Yes.

Favourite recipient — to define easily available message recipients or groups when
sending messages

Font size — to select the font size used in messages

Graphical smileys > Yes — to set your phone to replace character-based smileys
with graphical ones

Text messages

The text message settings affect the sending, receiving, and viewing of text and
SMS messages.

Select Menu > Messaging > Message settings > Text messages and from the
following options:

Delivery reports > Yes — to ask the network to send delivery reports about your
messages (network service)

Message centres > Add centre — to set the phone number and name of the
message centre that is required for sending text messages. You receive this
number from your service provider.

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M e s s a g i n g

Msg. centre in use — to select the message centre in use

Message validity — to select the length of time for which the network attempts to
deliver your message

Messages sent via — to select the format of the messages to be sent: Text, Paging,
or Fax (network service)

Use packet data > Yes — to set GPRS as the preferred SMS bearer

Character support > Full — to select all characters in the messages to be sent as
viewed. If you select Reduced, characters with accents and other marks may be
converted to other characters.

Rep. via same centre > Yes — to allow the recipient of your message to send you a
reply using your message centre (network service)

Multimedia messages

The message settings affect the sending, receiving, and viewing of multimedia
messages. You may receive the configuration settings for multimedia messaging
as a configuration message. See “Configuration settings service,” p. 13. You can
also enter the settings manually. See “Configuration,” p. 35.

Select Menu > Messaging > Message settings > Multimedia messages and from
the following options:

Delivery reports > Yes — to ask the network to send delivery reports about your
messages (network service)

MMS creation mode — to restrict or allow various types of multimedia to be added
to messages

Image size in MMS — to set the image size in multimedia messages

Default slide timing — to define the default time between slides in multimedia
messages

Allow MMS receptn. — to receive or block the multimedia message, select Yes or
No. If you select In home network, you cannot receive multimedia messages when
outside your home network. The default setting of the multimedia message
service is generally In home network. The availability of this menu depends on your
phone.

Incoming MMS msgs. — to decide how multimedia messages are retrieved. This
setting is not shown if Allow MMS receptn. is set to No.

Allow adverts — to receive or reject advertisements. This setting is not shown if
Allow MMS receptn. is set to No, or Incoming MMS msgs. is set to Reject.

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C o n t a c t s

Configuration sett. > Configuration — only the configurations that support
multimedia messaging are shown. Select a service provider, Default, or Personal
config.
for multimedia messaging. Select Account and a MMS account contained
in the active configuration settings.

E-mail messages

The settings affect the sending, receiving, and viewing of e-mail. You may receive
the settings as a configuration message. See “Configuration settings service,”
p. 13. You can also enter the settings manually. See “Configuration,” p. 35.

Select Menu > Messaging > Message settings > E-mail messages and from the
following options:

New e-mail notif. — to select whether a notification is shown when new e-mail is
received

Allow mail reception — to select whether e-mail can be received in a foreign
network or only in the home network

Reply with orig. msg. — to select whether the original message is included in the
reply

Image size in e-mail — to select the size of images in e-mail

Edit mailboxes — to add new mailboxes or edit one in use