Setting Up Email on BlackBerrys

Setting up and maintaining email functionality on a BlackBerry device is the responsibility of the cellular telephone service provider.

 

To set up Midcontinent email on a BlackBerry Smartphone, customers will need: 

• Full Email Address 
• Password
• POP (incoming) server: pop.midco.net

You do not need any outgoing server information to set up email on a BlackBerry 

• BlackBerry users are required to subscribe to a data package
• Provider of data package (a.k.a. BlackBerry Internet Service or BIS) will process outgoing email

Additional Information:

• BlackBerry devices configured for Midcontinent email default to using pop.midco.net over the IMAP protocol on port 143.
• BlackBerry devices configured for Midcontinent email will check periodically for new mail and retrieve new messages. There is no Send/Receive option that will retrieve new messages sooner than the pre-set schedule.
• Messages from other email services (Gmail, Yahoo, MSN, etc.) may show up faster than Midcontinent email. This is due to some email providers using a “push” email system to work with BlackBerry devices which may allow messages to be received on the BlackBerry in next to real time.

 

BlackBerry Support 
 

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