Component
Description
engine
The engine is a core component of the BlackBerry® Internet Service and polls subscriber email
accounts at specific time intervals, retrieves new email messages, and sends them to the
BlackBerry device or BlackBerry enabled device. The engine also manages email reconciliation
with email addresses that subscribers have added to the BlackBerry Internet Service.
integrated email accounts
Integrated email accounts are existing email accounts that subscribers add to the BlackBerry
Internet Service. Supported email accounts include Yahoo!®, Google Mail™, IMAP, POP, and
accounts that use Microsoft® Outlook® Web Access. If subscribers add an existing email address
to their BlackBerry Internet Service account, the BlackBerry Internet Service checks the email
account and sends the new email messages to the BlackBerry device. Depending on the email
service provider's implementation, the BlackBerry Internet Service either polls the subscriber's
email account for new email messages approximately every 15 minutes, or the email service
provider's system notifies the BlackBerry Internet Service when new email messages arrive.
BlackBerry email address
BlackBerry Internet Service subscribers can create an email address for their BlackBerry device.
The engine receives new email messages for the BlackBerry email address and sends them to
the subscriber’s BlackBerry device.
BlackBerry Internet Service subscriber
UIs
The BlackBerry Internet Service subscriber UIs provide subscribers with access to settings for
managing their email addresses.
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HTML: Subscribers with a user name and password log in to this web site using a browser
on a computer.
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WAP: Subscribers access this web site using their BlackBerry device. Subscribers that use
BlackBerry enabled devices access an HTML version of the BlackBerry Internet Service web
site. Subscribers might access the web site automatically or log in with a user name and
password.
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Email setup application: Subscribers log in automatically when they open the application on
their BlackBerry device. Some subscribers might need to log in manually with a user name
and password
BlackBerry Internet Service
administration web site
The BlackBerry Internet Service administration web site provides access to administrators for
managing subscriber accounts using a browser on their computer.
BlackBerry® Infrastructure
The BlackBerry Infrastructure belongs to Research In Motion and manages email messages on
various wireless networks to and from the BlackBerry device and the BlackBerry Internet Service.
BlackBerry® Provisioning System
The BlackBerry Provisioning System controls subscribers' access to BlackBerry services based on
the services that wireless service providers provide. For example, when a subscriber tries to create
a BlackBerry Internet Service account using the BlackBerry Internet Service web site, the
BlackBerry Provisioning System verifies that the subscriber has permission to create the account.
Feature and Technical Overview
BlackBerry Internet Service architecture
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