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, in the in the left pane, click Email Account.
2. Beside your BlackBerry email address, click the Delete icon.
3. Click OK.
Create a new BlackBerry email address
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, in the left pane, click Email Account.
2. Click Create Address.
3. In the User name field, type an email address name.
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 (.).
4. Click Next.
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