How to use Bell Mail

Accessing settings
Setting up Block and Allow lists
Managing spam
Changing how contacts are displayed
Working with signatures
Setting up a vacation message
Managing viruses

To manage the way Bell Mail checks your email for viruses:

  1. From anywhere in Bell Mail, select the gear icon gear icon in the upper right of the screen, and then select Settings.
  2. From the menu on the left, select Security.
  3. Under Virus, select how you would like Bell Mail to check for viruses.
Select Save.

Managing mail forwarding settings
Changing your password
Accessing settings

To access settings for Bell Mail, including vacation messages, security settings and changing your password:

From anywhere in Bell Mail, select the gear icon gear icon in the upper right of the screen, and then select Settings.

Setting up Block and Allow lists

Block and allow lists let you stop receiving email from specific email addresses and domains, identify exceptions and manage blocked messages.

To set up block and allow lists:

  1. From anywhere in Bell Mail, select the gear icon gear icon in the upper right of the screen, and then select Settings.
  2. From the menu on the left, select Security.
  3. Under Block senders and domains, select Block and allow email based on the lists below.
  4. Enter the email addresses and domains to be blocked. Separate each address with a comma.

    Blocked Email Addresses
  5. If you want to specify exceptions, you can enter these email addresses and domains in the text box below Enter allowed email addresses and domains below. Separate each address with a comma.

    Allow Email Addresses
  6. Select whether to Delete blocked messages or move them to another email folder. To do so, select Place blocked messages in and click in the field below. Select a folder and then select Ok.
  7. Select Save.

To turn off blocking:

  1. Under Block senders and domains, select Allow email from all senders and domains.
  2. Select Save.

Managing spam

To manage spam email:

  1. From anywhere in Bell Mail, select the gear icon  in the upper right of the screen, and then select Settings.
  2. From the menu on the left, select Security.
  3. Under Spam, select the way you want spam email to be treated.

Select Save.

You can help eliminate spam

If you’re getting spam in your Bell email inbox, please mark it as so. Simply select the message and click the Mark as spam icon in the toolbar above. This will help prevent such unwanted messages from being delivered in the future.

Changing how contacts are displayed

To change how your contacts are displayed:

  1. From anywhere in Bell Mail, select the gear icon gear icon in the upper right of the screen, and then select Settings.
  2. From the menu on the left, select Contacts.
  3. Select one of the two options for displaying contacts.

Working with signatures

To add a signature to your outgoing email:

  • From anywhere in Bell Mail, select the gear icon gear icon in the upper right of the screen, and then select Settings.
  • From the menu on the left, select Mail.
  • Under Signatures, select Add signature.
  • Enter a name for the signature.
  • Enter the signature.
  • Select the position the signature will be placed in when you are replying to or forwarding email.
  • Select Save.

Repeat these steps to create additional signatures.

signatures

To manage signatures:
Under the list of your signatures you can:

  • Set one signature as your default signature
  • Disable a signature
  • Edit or delete signatures a signature

Setting up a vacation message

You can have a reply automatically sent to people who send you email to inform them you are on vacation and not able to check email.

To set up a vacation message:

  1. From anywhere in Bell Mail, select the gear icon gear icon in the upper right of the screen, and then select Settings.
  2. From the menu on the left, select Vacation message.
  3. Type your vacation message in the text box and then select one of the following:
    • Do not activate vacation message to turn off your vacation message.
    • Reply every time to send your vacation message every time you get an email.
    • Reply every time and append original message to send your vacation message along with the original message, every time you get an email.
    • Reply once to each sender to send your vacation message only once to each sender.
  4. Select Save.

Managing viruses

To manage the way Bell Mail checks your email for viruses:

  1. From anywhere in Bell Mail, select the gear icon gear icon in the upper right of the screen, and then select Settings.
  2. From the menu on the left, select Security.
  3. Under Virus, select how you would like Bell Mail to check for viruses.
Select Save.

Managing mail forwarding settings

You can choose to have your email forwarded to another email address or addresses.

To manage mail forwarding:

  1. From anywhere in Bell Mail, select the gear icon gear icon in the upper right of the screen, and then select Settings.
  2. From the menu on the left, select Mail Forwarding.
  3. Enter up to 10 email addresses where you want your email forwarded. Separate each address with a comma.
  4. Select one of the following options:
    • Disable forwarding to turn off mail forwarding.
    • Forward and keep a copy to forward your email and keep a copy in Bell Mail.
    • Forward, then discard to forward your email without keeping a copy.
  5. Select Save.

Changing your password

Reset your password through MyBell:

If you still need assistance, you can visit Managing my Bell email address and password.

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