Sean Wallbridge
Considering Rogers is going to start charging me (us) for SMS Text messages inbound, and considering they do a really lousy job of reducing the amount of text spam I get, I took it upon myself to find a reference of Rogers text commands that can be used to block incoming garbage, so here’s the listing for quick reference (here’s the website it came from, for reference, it took long enough to find this info… http://www.rogers.com/web/content/wireless-text/email_text_commands).
Using the REPLY option on your phone, use the following commands to interact with the E-mail to Text service.
Use one of the following Commands to reply to the initial alert message:
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Command |
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Short Forms |
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Description |
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Read |
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R |
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Reads or gets the next part of the message |
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Block |
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B |
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Adds the sender to your “deny” list (spam control*) |
Use the following commands to interact with received messages:
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Command |
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Short Forms |
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Description |
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Read |
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R |
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Reads or gets the next part of the message |
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Block |
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B |
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Adds the sender to your “deny” list (spam control*) |
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Forward [email protected] |
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F |
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Forward the entire e-mail message (including attachments) to another e-mail address |
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Forward addr1; addr2; addr… |
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F |
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Forward the entire e-mail message to a list of e-mail addresses (separate addresses with semicolons) |
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Get cc |
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Gcc, G cc |
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Retrieves the cc list on a received message |
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Any other text |
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Replying with any other text will send that text back to the original sender as a reply to the sender’s email |
Administrative Commands
Use these commands to manage your service.
Just send a command as a text message to “0000000000”. (10 zeros)
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Command |
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Description |
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Subscribe |
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Turns the E-Mail to Text service on |
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unSubscribe |
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Turns the E-Mail to Text service off |
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Alias name |
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Defines your alias (e.g. name@pcs.rogers.com) |
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Name your name |
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Defines a familiar name (e.g. “John Smith”), in addition to the e-mail alias, for outbound e-mails from your phone |
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number off |
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Turns alerts off for e-mail sent to number@pcs.rogers.com. |
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number on |
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Turns alerts for number@pcs.rogers.com back on |
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cc on |
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All replies will be sent to all addresses in the ‘To’ and ‘cc’ fields of the original received e-mail |
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cc off |
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Turns carbon copy reply off |
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Allow [email protected] |
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Add a sender to the “allow” list, removing that sender from the “deny” list if necessary. (spam control*) |
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Allow domain.com |
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Add any address from a domain to the “allow” list (any user@domain.com) |
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Block [email protected] |
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Add a sender to the “deny” list, removing that sender from the “allow” list if necessary. (spam control*) |
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Block domain.com |
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Add any address from a domain to the “deny” list (any user@domain.com) |
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Francais |
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Request service in French |
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Help |
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Returns a list of help topics |
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Help command |
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Returns help for using a specific command |
*Spam Control
The Rogers Wireless™ E-mail to Text Service uses a sophisticated anti-spam engine to help insure that subscribers do not receive unsolicited e-mail messages.
A network component will block messages which contain specific criteria, unique to spam messages. As well, subscribers may also choose to personalize the behaviour of their service by populating their “allow” and “deny” lists (see above).
E-mail originating from addresses in the “deny” list will never reach the phone. E-mail originating from addresses in the “allow” list will always reach the phone, whether the service believes the messages to be spam or not.