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Vodafone Mail customers have a combined Inbox facility for e-mail, faxes, and voice mail messages. The usefulness of this facility was limited—until the introduction of e-mail filters—by the inability to avoid spam messages. Sure, you could log in via webmail to view faxes and play back voice mail, but at the expense and irritation of a handful of spam! E-mail filtering allows you to receive those faxes using your usual e-mail client without having to download all the spam as well...

Login to Vodafone Mail

1. Choose Settings and select Email Filtering.
2. Choose to Receive emails only from listed senders and either enter your own address then click Add:

   

3. Save and Logout.

Note: You can also optionally choose whether to receive a free SMS notification that you have a new fax—in case you don't check your e-mail very often!

Set up your e-mail client

The following instruction assumes you are using Mail 1.3.9 under Mac OS X Panther.

1. Create a new e-mail account, calling it "Fax" or an alternative of your choice:

   

2. Don't enter your Vodafone Mail username at Email Address or your name at Full Name, otherwise the account will show up in the Accounts pop-up menu when composing a new message.
3. For Incoming Mail Server use imap.vodafone.net; enter your Vodafone Mail username at User Name and your Vodafone Mail password at Password.
4. You don't need to select an SMTP server, as this is going to be a "receive only" account.
5. Now, when you receive a fax, it will appear in your Inbox just like an ordinary e-mail (with the fax itself as an attached TIFF) and without your having to use the (Safari incompatible) Vodafone Mail webmail interface:

   

What about Voice messages?

The above settings also allow you to receive voice messages into your e-mail client's Inbox. Mac users are not able to playback voice messages via the Vodafone Mail website, and are instead greeted by a message saying that Safari (or Firefox) cannot find an appropriate plug-in. If you use the above settings, your voice message will be received as a .wav file—and playback is a breeze:

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