I recently switched my email client from Outlook to Gmail.  As part of that move I set up forward to my old email addresses that now send those messages directly to my Gmail address and my BlackBerry address.  In doing so I now get my email much faster as Gmail and BlackBerry don’t have to poll my accounts.  An unintended consequence of this is that I’m now getting more spam on my BlackBerry.  Gmail has better filters and is catching the spam.

To reduce the noise created by all these spam messages I’ve switched to using the BlackBerry Gmail client.  Gmail for the BlackBerry doesn’t poll for mail very often which is a bit of a negative but then who really needs mail faster then every five minutes?  I can always hit the refresh button if I need the mail sooner.

To make my life easier I thought I’d look up some shortcut keys for the BlackBerry Gmail client.  Turns out the only shortcuts I could find were for the Gmail desktop client.  There is some overlap with these keys but there are many ommissions.  I’ve compiled the following list of shortcut keys that worked on my BlackBerry Gmail client.

Feel free to leave comments if I left any out.

Gmail Shortcut keys from the inbox:

• o – open
• t – top of inbox
• b – bottom of inbox
• j – moves to older message
• k – moves to newer item
• m – mutes a conversation (bypasses the inbox)
• c – compose new message
• s – add remove star to message

Dangerous Shortcuts –  Using these keys will remove messages from your Inbox.  The only saving grace is that they messages are still in your Gmail account which means you can retreive them from a desktop.

• d – deletes message without confirmation
• y- moves messages to the archive

Shortcut keys from a message:

• u-  returns to inbox
• i – returns to inbox
• n – moves to next message in conversation
• p – moves to previous message in conversation
• t – top of conversation
• b – bottom of conversation

Follow this link for the list of desktop Gmail client shortcut keys