A mobile wireless communications device comprising: a wireless transceiver ; a controller coupled to the wireless transceiver ; and a display coupled to the controller ; wherein the controller is configured to prompt a user for a username that is an email address and a password associated with an application on the display , after a threshold number of attempts to enter the email address and the password has been exceeded, or after the user entered the email address after indicating a forgotten password, determine if the email address is associated with the mobile wireless communications device , and if so, wirelessly send a validation request to an external validation server based on the email address, and wait for a validation email to be wirelessly received based on the validation request, and if the validation email is received and if the sender of the received validation email matches a predetermined sender email address associated with the validation server , validate access to the application by extracting a unique login key from the validation email and using the extracted unique login key to verify the validation request with the validation server ; wherein the controller is further configured to display a password reset input screen based on the validation email for the user to input a new password and confirm the new password at the password reset input screen. a wireless transceiver ; a controller coupled to the wireless transceiver ; and a display coupled to the controller ; wherein the controller is configured to prompt a user for a username that is an email address and a password associated with an application on the display , after a threshold number of attempts to enter the email address and the password has been exceeded, or after the user entered the email address after indicating a forgotten password, determine if the email address is associated with the mobile wireless communications device , and if so, wirelessly send a validation request to an external validation server based on the email address, and wait for a validation email to be wirelessly received based on the validation request, and if the validation email is received and if the sender of the received validation email matches a predetermined sender email address associated with the validation server , validate access to the application by extracting a unique login key from the validation email and using the extracted unique login key to verify the validation request with the validation server ; prompt a user for a username that is an email address and a password associated with an application on the display , after a threshold number of attempts to enter the email address and the password has been exceeded, or after the user entered the email address after indicating a forgotten password, determine if the email address is associated with the mobile wireless communications device , and if so, wirelessly send a validation request to an external validation server based on the email address, and wait for a validation email to be wirelessly received based on the validation request, and if the validation email is received and if the sender of the received validation email matches a predetermined sender email address associated with the validation server , validate access to the application by extracting a unique login key from the validation email and using the extracted unique login key to verify the validation request with the validation server ; wherein the controller is further configured to display a password reset input screen based on the validation email for the user to input a new password and confirm the new password at the password reset input screen. <EOS>