How To Change Your Signature on a Blackberry

If you are a non-BES user (Blackberry Enterprise Server) – or if you bought your own Blackberry as opposed to your company giving it to you – you may wonder how to change that default signature block that gets appended to the end of all your Blackberry-sent messages. Mine was, “Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry”. I hate that for a few reasons:

1. Verizon Wireless doesn’t pay me to advertise for them.
2. I don’t necessarily need people to know I can be reached at anytime, anyplace.
3. I want to set my own signature.

When I worked for Northrop Grumman, I supported Blackberrys so I know that in a corporate environment, you can change the signature via Redirector Settings but that is only available if you set the Blackberry up in the BES environment – something most of us small business people probably don’t have access to.

After several months of digging, and tons of bad advice from the internet, I discovered that Blackberry provides a standard web portal for managing email accounts directly from the web. Though I can only confirm this works for Verizon Wireless, my research leads me to believe it will work with any carrier.

Follow these steps:

I’d be interested to hear from non-Verizon Wireless customers as to whether this works.

5th Dec 06. Posted in Aaron Brazell.

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