Using Bell email

Bell email features

About Bell email

With Bell email, you'll enjoy an easy-to-use interface, a mobile device-friendly experience, enhanced security, an ad-free inbox and more. Your account includes:

  • Up to 15 email addresses.
  • Sufficient email storage.
  • Email anti-virus protection.
  • Junk email filter.
  • Online access at bell.net.

Contacts: keep track of all your contacts, create distribution lists and add profile photos.

Calendar: schedule appointments, invite other participants and toggle calendar views.

Tasks: create task lists, set reminders and track your progress.

Managing your Bell email address and password
Accessing Bell email with a web browser
Accessing Bell email via smartphone, tablet or computer
Email server settings
Bell webmail update
Bell email features

About Bell email

With Bell email, you'll enjoy an easy-to-use interface, a mobile device-friendly experience, enhanced security, an ad-free inbox and more. Your account includes:

  • Up to 15 email addresses.
  • Sufficient email storage.
  • Email anti-virus protection.
  • Junk email filter.
  • Online access at bell.net.

Contacts: keep track of all your contacts, create distribution lists and add profile photos.

Calendar: schedule appointments, invite other participants and toggle calendar views.

Tasks: create task lists, set reminders and track your progress.

Managing your Bell email address and password

Managing your Bell email address and password

Creating a Bell email address
Learn how to create your email address in MyBell
You can create up to 15 email addresses.

Forgot your email address or your password?
You can reset your password or look up your email address.

Looking to manage your other Bell Internet usernames and passwords?
Other Bell Internet services may use different logins. Learn more

Accessing Bell email with a web browser

Accessing your Bell email via the Web

We highly recommend using web-based Bell email to make the most of its many features. Learn more about Bell webmail.

To sign in to your Bell email account from the web:

  1. Go to www.bell.net or bell.ca/webmail.
  2. Enter your Bell email address and password.
  3. Click Log in.

You can be signed in on more than one computer at once.

When you're done using Bell email, click your name in the top right corner of the window and choose Log out, or simply close your web browser. You'll be signed out automatically if you leave your Bell email idle for a period of time, unless you checked the Keep me signed in option.

Accessing Bell email via smartphone, tablet or computer

Accessing Bell email via smartphone, tablet or computer

We highly recommend using web-based Bell email to make the most of its many features. Learn more about Bell webmail.

However, you can configure Bell email to work with your email software using either POP or IMAP settings. We recommend using IMAP because it provides useful functions, such as syncing your folders and messages across multiple devices.

Follow these steps to set up email using IMAP settings.

iOS:

  1. Touch Settings.
  2. Touch Mail.
  3. Touch Account.
  4. Touch Other.
  5. Touch Add Mail account.
  6. Enter your name, email address and password and touch Next.

Note: if the email account details are automatically recognized, the account will be added. Otherwise, follow the steps to set up the account manually.

Android:

  1. Open the Gmail app and navigate to the Settings section.
  2. Touch Add account.
  3. Touch Other.
  4. Enter your full email address and touch Next.
  5. Enter the password for your email address and touch Next.

Note: settings can vary by device. For more information, contact your device manufacturer.

Computer

  • Get step-by-step instructions to set up your email software with IMAP settings
  • If your email software is not listed, you can attempt to set it up yourself using the support options offered by your software manufacturer.
    You’ll need your Bell email address and password, plus one of the following server settings. We recommend using IMAP.

Email server settings

Email server settings

Incoming mail server (IMAP or POP)

IMAP POP
Server imap.bell.net pophm.sympatico.ca
Port 993 995
SSL required Yes (Select This server requires a secure connection (SSL) or Use SSL.)

Outgoing mail server (SMTP)

Server smtphm.sympatico.ca
Port 25 (or 587 if port 25 does not work)
Authentication required Yes
TLS/SSL required Yes
(Select STARTTLS or TLS if available. If not, select SSL.)

Syncing Calendar and Contacts:

If you want to sync your Calendar and Contacts to your device or email software, you can do so using CalDAV (Calendar) and CardDAV (Contacts). Use the following settings:

CalDAV/CardDAV server dav.webmail.bell.net
Port 443
Encryption SSL

Bell webmail update

There is an automatic update for Bell email and all customers will be updated by March, 2022 .

The new update:

  • Works better with mobile browsers.
  • A new look for an improved experience.
  • An easy-to-use floating tool bar for quick access to features.
  • A smart way to sort and categorize to keep your inbox organized.
  • An optimized mobile experience supported on even more browsers.

You’ll be notified when you log in the first time after your account is updated. Note: our technical support agents don’t know the schedule, nor can they complete the update manually.

We highly recommend using web-based Bell email to make the most of its many features. Learn more about Bell webmail.

Not sure if you’ve been updated?

Previous version of Bell email
Previous version of Bell email
New version of Bell email
Previous version of Bell email

Changes you’ll notice in the new Bell email

Composing emails

  • When you write a new email, it will appear in a pop-up window. Click the arrow in the top right if you want to move the message to a separate browser window.
  • Messages you’re composing are saved in the Drafts folder, even if you exit Bell email before you click send.
  • While writing a message, you can now use CTRL-Z to undo a text change, and CTRL-Y to redo a text change.

Calendar

  • Similar to composing email, when you create a new event, it will appear in a pop-up window. Click the arrow in the top right if you want to move the event to a separate browser window.
  • Calendar event reminders are sent to you as emails and will appear in your inbox. The default reminder time is 15 minutes, which you can change when creating or editing an event.

Contacts

  • Email addresses you enter when you create emails will be saved to your Contacts list automatically. You can also enter contacts manually.

Imported email accounts

  • If you previously imported a second email account, you’ll need to re-enter the account information after the update. Go to Settings>Mail>Import email account.

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