You can pull together all your email accounts into one - easily - by using the BlackBerry Internet Service client(former known as the BlackBerry Web Client), which allows you to do the following:
- Manage up to ten email accounts: You can combine up to ten of your email accounts onto your BlackBerry.See the upcoming section, "Combining your email accounts into one."
- Use wireless email reconciliation: No more trying to match your BlackBerry email against email in your combined account(s). Just turn on wireless email reconciliation, and you're good to go.
- Specify a Sent From address for outgoing email: If you have more than one email account, you can specify which account a sent email goes to.
- Create email filters: You can filter emails so that you get only those email messages that you truly care about on your BlackBerry.
Think of the BlackBerry Internet Service client (Service client) as another online email account, like Yahoo! Mail. And just like Yahoo! Mail, the BlackBerry Internet Service client has an email inbox where email is stored. The Service client's inbox looks and feels like any other online email account. Yet, unlike other online email accounts, Service client is directly connected to your BlackBerry. This means that if you delete an email on your BlackBerry, that same email is also deleted in the inbox on the BlackBerry Internet Service client.
Combining your email accounts into one
To start aggregating email accounts (like Yahoo! Mail) onto your BlackBerry, you must first run a setup from the BlackBerry Internet Service client. You can access the Service client from your BlackBerry or from your desktop computer.
To access the Service client from your PC, you need the URL that is specific to your network service. If your service provider isn't listed, contact it directly for the URL that is specific to your service.
After you enter your service provider's Web address in your Web browser, the Service client asks you to log in, as shown in Figure 1.
Figure 1: Set up an email account here.
If this is your first time logging in to the Service client, you need to first register and then create a user ID and password for the Service client. After you log on to the Service client, you see a screen from which you can access your email inbox as well as perform various other tasks. At the top of the BlackBerry Internet Service client, as shown in Figure 2, you can see a toolbar with the following options and their functions:
- Search: Search for email within your email folders.
- Filters: Manage different ways to filter your email. (Here you can specify which email goes to your BlackBerry and which doesn't, for example.)
- Auto Reply: Set a reply that automatically goes to senders. For example, you can use this setting to create an Out of Office auto-reply email.
- Options: Set up your email signature here. You can also set up a Reply To address here. (Use a Reply To address when you don't want your recipients to reply to the address you're sending an email from.)
- Profile: Manage your email accounts and set your Sent From address from here.
Figure 2: The BlackBerry Internet Service client toolbar.
Note that your BlackBerry already has an email address with which you can receive and send email.
Adding an email account
You can have up to ten email accounts on your BlackBerry - this is the good stuff right here. To add an email account to your BlackBerry account, follow these steps:
1. From the toolbar of the BlackBerry Internet Service client (refer to Figure 2), click Profile.
You see the Profile screen, from which you can manage your email accounts.
2. From the Profile screen, click the Other Email Accounts link (under the Email Accounts heading).
You can see the email address(es) that your BlackBerry receives email from. If this is the first time that you're setting up an email account, you see only one email address, which is your BlackBerry email address.
3. From the Email Accounts screen, click the Add Account button.
You are prompted to enter the following information:
• The email address from which you want to receive email: for example, myid@yahoo.com
• The account login you use to log in to this particular email account
• The password that is associated with the login
4. Click the Submit button.
You see the Email Accounts screen listing your newly added email address.
If you don't see this screen, here are some hints as to what's wrong:
• You might have to enable POP Forwarding on the email account you're try to receive email from (for example, a Yahoo! email account).
• You didn't enter your information properly.
You can also manage your accounts from your BlackBerry. Scroll to the Setup Email application (that you use to open a BlackBerry Browser session), and the rest is pretty much the same on the BlackBerry compared with a PC.
You should first register and create your account using your PC. Then for your subsequent visits to the BlackBerry Internet Service client, you can use your BlackBerry. This way, you can minimize any errors or out-of-network coverage issues while setting up your account.
