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How to Access Your Bell Email Address Even Outside Canada:

Do you have an email account with the Canadian telecommunications provider "Bell Canada" and are wondering how to access your emails using a third-party client? If so, you first need to identify the country you're trying to access your Bell emails from:

Accessing your Bell.ca emails within Canada and whitelisted countries:
In many countries, third-party access to your Bell email account is supported. You can simply enter the IMAP, POP, or SMTP settings stated below into your email software, and you'll be all set.

Supported countries include: Australia, Bahamas, Canada, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Spain, United Kingdom, and the United States.

Accessing your Bell.ca emails from restricted countries:
If you're in a location not listed above, you unfortunately won’t be able to use a third-party email client to access your Bell account. However, you can still check your email by using the Bell.ca webmailer.

How to Access Your Bell.ca Email Address

In the following sections, you'll find the current Bell email settings for IMAP, POP and SMTP. To access your email account using a third party software (email client, mailbox migration tool…), simply add the settings for incoming and outgoing server (IMAP / POP and SMTP) and you're good to go.

Bell.ca IMAP Settings:

To receive emails in your email client or for email migration, add these Bell IMAP settings in the section for "incoming emails":

IMAP Server	imap.bell.net
IMAP Port	993
IMAP Security	SSL / requires secure connection
Username	Your Bell.ca email address
Password	Your Bell.ca email password

Bell.ca SMTP Settings:

To send messages, add these Bell SMTP settings to your email client.
(When migrating emails with MailJerry, please don't use SMTP but stick with IMAP!)

SMTP Server	smtphm.sympatico.ca
SMTP Port	25 or 587
SMTP Security	SSL or STARTTLS / TLS if SSL is not available
Username	Your Bell.ca email address
Password	Your Bell.ca email password

Bell.ca POP Settings:

Do you prefer POP instead of IMAP? In this case, you can use these Bell POP settings:

POP Server	pophm.sympatico.ca
POP Port	995
POP Security	SSL / requires secure connection
Username	Your Bell.ca email address
Password	Your Bell.ca email password

POP or IMAP: What should I use?

POP and IMAP are both email protocols. But there's one big difference: If you configure your Bell email account with POP3, your emails will be downloaded from the server directly onto your device. This allows you to access your emails even without an internet connection. Additionally, it helps save server space, so you won’t risk exceeding your Bell email storage limit. When opting for POP, please be aware that your emails are no longer stored on the Bell email servers, but only on your device. Therefore, make sure to regularly run a backup of your data!

That said, if you check your Bell email from more than one device, you'll only see the emails on the device where they were first downloaded. So if you're accessing your email on multiple devices, IMAP is a better choice, as it syncs your messages across all your devices.

How to Migrate Emails from / To Bell:

Did you just recently sing up with Bell.ca and wish to move your existing emails to your new account? Or are you leaving the Canadian hosting provider and wish to take your emails with you? Here's how you can easily do so:

➡️ Download our email migration tool or start your migration directly in the browser.

➡️ Launch MailJerry and select "New Migration".

➡️ Select the account type (usually IMAP) and fill in the email credentials for your existing email account.

➡️ In the "New Address" section, input the settings for your new email account (e.g., the Bell email settings provided above).

➡️ Start your migration by clicking on "Start Migration."

🎉 That's all! Your emails are now being migrated to your new account!

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How to Access Your Bell Email Address Even Outside Canada: