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:
- Browse to https://bis.na.blackberry.com/html?brand=vzw. Replace vzw with your own provider. I tested cingular, telus and rogers and each have their own branding. I’d imagine this would work for other providers as well.
- Login with the account information you typically log into Email Settings on the handheld.
- From here, signatures can be edited, email accounts can be added, removed, etc.
I’d be interested to hear from non-Verizon Wireless customers as to whether this works.
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About the Author: Aaron Brazell is the lead editor of Technosailor.com and a social media expert. His passion is to see companies and individuals use the internet and web technologies wisely and effectively to promote their brands and companies. He served as Director of Technology at b5media from 2005-2008 and is currently an independent consultant.
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Messages->Options->Email Settings
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https://bis.na.blackberry.com/html?brand=cingular
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http://support.t-mobile.com/knowbase/root/publi...
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http://bis.na.blackberry.com/html?brand=mycingular
Note it's "mycingular", not "cingular" -- accounts will not work if the branding is not set properly.
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thank you very much!
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http://www.uscellular.blackberry.com
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