- Go to T-Mobile.com.
- Click on "My T-Mobile" in the upper right hand corner.
- Enter your user name and password. If you don't have one, you should register. It lets you pay your bill online and upgrade your phone and crap too.
- Click on "Communication Tools."
- Click on "Create spam and keyword filters."
- Click on "Create filter."
- Construct the filter accordingly. It's pretty basic logic. Mine reads:
If the [FROM] field [CONTAINS] [XXXXXXXXXX], Then [DO NOT SEND TO HANDSET BUT FORWARD TO] [my@emailaddress.com].
You can edit all of the stuff in brackets. In this example, XXXXXXXXXX is someone's 10-digit number who keeps sending me unwanted text messages. my@emailaddress.com is, of course, my email address.
- Click "Save." You are an information management master!
As far as I can tell, T-Mobile doesn't publish a document or anything on how to do this, or whether or not it's even possible, but they will tell you about it if you call support. I don't think other carriers let you do this. It's pretty cool that T-Mobile does. Yet another reason they rule.