Blackbe;rry MAIL - BROWSING SMARTPHONE User manual

BlackBerry Mail
Using the Browser on Your BlackBerry Smartphone
Version: 2.6
User Guide

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Contents
Getting started........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 2
BlackBerry Mail web site basics............................................................................................................................................................................................................... 2
Troubleshooting for the BlackBerry Mail web site................................................................................................................................................................................. 4
Changing your BlackBerry email address............................................................................................................................................................................................... 6
BlackBerry email address basics.............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 6
Changing display options.......................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 8
Changing the password, secret question, and answer for your BlackBerry email address............................................................................................................... 9
Troubleshooting for the BlackBerry email address................................................................................................................................................................................ 11
Managing email messages....................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 12
Email message forwarding........................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 12
About email message filters...................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 14
Troubleshooting for email message management................................................................................................................................................................................. 14
BlackBerry devices..................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 16
BlackBerry device basics........................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 16
Troubleshooting for BlackBerry devices.................................................................................................................................................................................................. 17
Glossary....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 19
Legal notice................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 21

Getting started
BlackBerry Mail web site basics
About visiting the BlackBerry Mail web site for the first time
The first time that you visit the BlackBerry® Mail web site, you create a BlackBerry email address that you use to send and receive email messages
on your BlackBerry device.
If you log in to your BlackBerry Mail account using a user name and password, the next time that you access the BlackBerry Mail web site, you
must provide your login information.
About logging in using a user name and password
By default, when you open the email setup application or visit the BlackBerry® Mail web site using a browser on your BlackBerry device, you
access your BlackBerry Mail account automatically and do not need to provide login information.
To log in to the BlackBerry Mail web site using a browser on your computer, you must first create a user name and password in the email setup
application or on the BlackBerry Mail web site using a browser on your device.
After you create a user name and password, the next time you access your BlackBerry Mail account, you must complete the following actions:
• type the user name and password to log in to your account
• validate your BlackBerry email address
Note: You do not receive emails on your device until you log into the BlackBerry Internet Service web site and validate your email address or
email addresses.
Create a user name and password for your BlackBerry Mail account
If you create a user name and password for your BlackBerry® Mail account, you can no longer change back to access your account without a
user name and password.
1. On the BlackBerry Mail web site, on the Services and Settings web page, click Create User Name.
2. Complete the User name field.
3. Complete the Password field.
4. Complete the Confirm password field.
5. Click Next.
6. Click OK.
7. Type the password to validate the email address.
8. Click OK.
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Log in using a user name and password
To find the web page address of the BlackBerry® Mail web site, see the printed documentation that came with your BlackBerry device, or contact
your wireless service provider.
You can only log in to the BlackBerry Mail web site if you access your BlackBerry Mail account using a user name and password.
1. Using a browser on your computer or on your BlackBerry device, visit the BlackBerry Mail web site.
2. If necessary, click a display language for the web site.
3. In the User name field, type your BlackBerry Mail user name.
A user name begins with a letter or number and is between 4-32 characters in length. User names can contain upper and lower case letters
(a-z, A-Z), numbers (0-9), underscores (_), dashes (-), and periods (.).
4. Complete the Password field.
A password is between 6-16 characters in length and is case-sensitive. Passwords cannot contain accented characters, but they can contain
upper and lower case letters (a-z, A-Z), numbers (0-9), underscores (_), dashes (-), and periods (.).
5. Click Log In.
To log out of the web site, click Log Out.
Related topics
About logging in using a user name and password, 2
About logging in using a user name and password, 2
About your BlackBerry Mail password
IfyouaccessyourBlackBerry®MailaccountautomaticallyeachtimeyouvisitthetheBlackBerryMailwebsiteusingabrowseronyourBlackBerry
device, you do not have a password for your BlackBerry Mail account.
If you log in to your BlackBerry Mail account using a user name and password, you can change your BlackBerry Mail password regularly. If you
forget your password, from the login web page, you can request BlackBerry Mail to send it to your BlackBerry device.
Change the password for your BlackBerry Mail account
You can only change the password for your BlackBerry® Mail account if you access your BlackBerry Mail account using a user name and
password.
1. On the BlackBerry Mail web site, on the Services and Settings web page, click Password.
2. Complete the New password field.
A password is between 6-16 characters in length and is case-sensitive. Passwords cannot contain accented characters, but they can contain
upper and lower case letters (a-z, A-Z), numbers (0-9), underscores (_), dashes (-), and periods(.).
3. Complete the Confirm password field.
4. Click OK.
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About the display language of the web site
When you visit the BlackBerry® Mail web site, you can specify the display language of the web site. The display languages that are available
for the web site are the languages that are installed on your BlackBerry device and the languages that your wireless service provider supports.
If you access your BlackBerry Mail account automatically each time you open the BlackBerry Mail web site and you did not specify a display
language on the End User Agreement web page, the web page appears in the default display language that is specified for your BlackBerry
device. If you specify a new language on the End User Agreement web page, the new display language overrides display language options that
you might have set previously for your BlackBerry Mail account.
If you access your BlackBerry Mail account using a user name and password and you do not specify a display language on the login web page,
the web page will appear in the default display language that is specified for your BlackBerry device. If you specify a new language on the login
page, the new display language overrides display language options that you might have set previously for your BlackBerry Mail account.
Change the display language of the web site
1. On the BlackBerry® Mail web site, on the Services and Settings web page, click Language.
2. Click a display language.
3. Click Save.
About the end user agreement
When you create your BlackBerry® Mail account, you must read and accept an end user agreement before you can create your account. If you
do not accept the end user agreement, you are not able to use BlackBerry Mail.
You can view the end user agreement that you accepted at any time. BlackBerry Mail displays the date and time of when you accepted the end
user agreement.
View the end user agreement
1. On the BlackBerry® Mail web site, on the Services and Settings web page, click Email Account.
2. Click End User Agreement.
3. Click End User Agreement.
4. Click OK.
Troubleshooting for the BlackBerry Mail web site
I cannot read the language of the BlackBerry Mail web site
Open or log in to the web site and change the display language.
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The password for my BlackBerry Mail account is no longer a secret
You only have a password for your BlackBerry® Mail account if you access your BlackBerry Mail account using a user name and password.
Log in to the web site and change your password.
I have forgotten the password for my BlackBerry Mail account and cannot log in to the
BlackBerry Mail web site
You have a password for your BlackBerry® Mail account if you access your BlackBerry Mail account using a user name and password. You can
request BlackBerry Mail to send your account password to your BlackBerry device.
1. On the BlackBerry Mail web site, on the login web page, click Forgot password?
2. Type your user name.
3. Click Submit.
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Changing your BlackBerry email address
BlackBerry email address basics
About the BlackBerry email address
If you access your BlackBerry® Mail account automatically each time you open the email setup application or the BlackBerry Mail web site, the
first time you open your BlackBerry Mail account, you specify a user name for your BlackBerry email address.
If you access BlackBerry Mail account using a user name and password, the first time that your log in to BlackBerry Mail, you specify a user
name for your BlackBerry Mail account. BlackBerry Mail uses that user name to create the part of your BlackBerry email address before the at
sign (@) (for example, "katewahl" in [email protected]).
Note: You can only have one BlackBerry email address that is associated with your BlackBerry Mail account and your BlackBerry device.
About changing your BlackBerry email address
When you create your BlackBerry® email address, BlackBerry® Mail uses the user name that you provide to create the part of your email address
before the at sign (@) (for example, “katewahl” in [email protected]). If you want to change the user name part of your BlackBerry
email address, you can delete your existing BlackBerry email address and create a new BlackBerry email address.
When you create a new BlackBerry email address, if the new user name that you type is not available, BlackBerry Mail will provide you with
alternate user names. You can select one of the alternate user names or type your own user name.
Note: When you delete your BlackBerry email address, BlackBerry Mail stops sending email messages that are addressed to your previous
BlackBerry email address to your BlackBerry device .
Delete your BlackBerry email address
1. On the BlackBerry® Mail web site, on the Services and Settings web page, click Email Account.
2. Under your BlackBerry email address, click Delete.
3. Click OK.
Create a new BlackBerry email address
If you log in to your BlackBerry® Mail account using a user name and password and if you change your BlackBerry email address, the user name
that you type when you create your new BlackBerry email address is different from the user name that you type to log in to the BlackBerry Mail
web site. Use your original user name to log in to the BlackBerry Mail web site.
1. On the BlackBerry Mail web site, on the Services and Settings web page, click Email Account.
2. Click Create A BlackBerry Email Address.
3. Type the setup information for your BlackBerry email address.
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4. Click Next.
5. Click OK.
6. Under your BlackBerry email address, click Edit.
7. Change the options for your BlackBerry email address.
8. Click Save.
Related topics
Setup options for the BlackBerry email address, 7
Setup fields for the BlackBerry email address
User name:
Type a user name for your BlackBerry® email address. Your user name will appear before the @ sign in your BlackBerry email address. A
user name begins with a letter or number and is between 1-32 characters in length. User names can contain upper and lower case letters
(a-z, A-Z), numbers (0-9), underscores (_), dashes (-), and periods (.).
Password:
If necessary, type a password. A password is between 6-16 characters in length and is case sensitive. Passwords cannot contain accented
characters, but they can contain upper and lower case letters (a-z, A-Z), numbers (0-9), underscores (_), dashes (-), and periods (.).
Confirm Password:
If necessary, type the password again.
Secret question:
If necessary, select a pre-defined secret question or create a secret question. The question cannot exceed 100 characters.
Secret answer:
If necessary, type an answer for the secret question. Your secret answer must not exceed 100 characters and is not case sensitive.
Setup options for the BlackBerry email address
Email account name:
Type a description for your email account. This email account name appears on the Home screen of your BlackBerry® device under the
BlackBerry email address message list.
Reply to:
Type an email address that replies are sent to when your contacts reply to your email messages. You can use the Reply To email address
to hide your BlackBerry email address.
Your name:
Type the display name that you want to appear in the From field of email messages that you send. The display name identifies you as the
sender of an email message in a friendly, informal manner.
Signature:
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Type a signature for your email address. Your signature appears at the end of email messages that you send from your BlackBerry device.
Auto BCC:
Type an email address to automatically forward a copy of email messages to that you send from your BlackBerry device.
Auto forward:
Type an email address to which you want to automatically forward a copy of all received email messages from your BlackBerry device,
including all email message attachments and text.
All messages:
Specify whether you want to automatically forward a copy of all of your incoming email messages.
Only messages with attachments:
Specify whether you want to automatically forward a copy of only email messages with email message attachments.
Changing display options
About email address names
On the BlackBerry® Mail web site, the Email account name field displays the name of your BlackBerry email address. You can change the name
of your BlackBerry email address in the Email account name field to make it more meaningful to you.
For example, if your email address is [email protected], you could change the email address name to "Kate Wahl at home."
When you send an email message from your BlackBerry device, your email account name appears in the Send Using field at the top of the email
message. Your email account name also appears on the Home screen of your BlackBerry device.
Change an email address name
1. On the BlackBerry® Mail web site, on the Services and Settings web page, click Email Account.
2. Under your BlackBerry email address, click Edit.
3. In the Email account name field, type an email address name.
4. Click Save.
5. If necessary, type the password for your email address.
6. If necessary, click OK.
7. If necessary, click OK.
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