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Changing your BlackBerry auto signature
Posted by Joe on February 13, 2008
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A couple of days ago, Rae asked me to do a piece on how to change or remove the auto signature on your BlackBerry. You know, like the one I used to have that said “Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry.” I was kind of confused at first. “That’s easy,” I said. “You just log into your BlackBerry account and change the preferences of your email.” But then she reminded me that not all BlackBerry users have that login. Duh, I thought. What about the BES crew? They’re probably going to want to change their signatures, too.
Changing the auto signature on your personal BlackBerry
Go to your carrier’s login page — listed below — and enter your login information. If you haven’t created an account yet, you’ll be given that option at the login screen.
Once logged in, you’ll be able to set up the email addresses you can view from your BlackBerry. Once you set one up, go back to the dashboard screen, where you can click on the options for your email address (it’s the leftmost button below):

You can find your dashboard by carrier below:
Alltel: http://www.alltel.blackberry.com/
AT&T: http://bis.na.blackberry.com/html?brand=mycingular
Sprint: https://bis.na.blackberry.com/html?brand=nextel
Rogers: https://bis.na.blackberry.com/html?brand=rogers
Telus: https://bis.na.blackberry.com/html?brand=telus
T-Mobile: https://my.t-mobile.com/Login/Default.aspx
Verizon: https://bis.na.blackberry.com/html?brand=vzw
Once you click on the options, you’ll come to a screen with information on your email address and passwords. That’s where your auto signature box will be. Change or delete it, and then hit “Save.” Yep, you’re done.
Changing your auto signature from a BES
If you’ve got your BlackBerry through work and are using a BlackBerry Enterprise Server, your task will be slightly different. There are actually two options here.
First, you can do it through your Desktop Manager. Simply run the program, and go into “email settings.” From there, click on the second tab, which will show your auto signature. You can change it or just turn it off…whichever works for you.
Alternatively, you can do this right from your handheld. Just go to your messages, and click “options.” Then click on email settings, where you’ll be greeted with the option to change your auto-signature.
And there you have it. Whether you’ve got a corporate BlackBerry or a personal one, you can make it like you’re sending emails from anywhere. Because hey, we all need to get away from the office for a day, right?
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4 Comments ↓
Trouble is you CAN’T change the AUTO Signature on Verizon Wireless. I even tried to highlight it / select it and it wouldn’t let me even delete it. Any suggestions?
Also, is there any way to unlock the photos that are loaded onto the blackberry pearl so that I can edit it in a photoshop with my logo ontop of it and then load it back in as my desktop?
Any info would be MUCH Appreciated.
I just got off tech support with Verizon. They confirmed that you can’t change the auto signature line if you are using MS Exchange server. So far as I can tell, everyone in the USA with a Blackberry and Verizon has the line “Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry.†tacked onto the end of every email they send from their handheld device.
How amazingly frustrating and non-customer-centric!
frustrated, I called Blackberry. They put me in touch with a different Verizon person in Verizon Tech Support dedicated to Blackberry.
This guy directed me to the same link as above - gave me my login name and password… and wow… it works! I can change my signature line. Life is better!
Thank you soooo much for this! I am so happy to be able to change my signature. Why do they make it so hard? Lucky for me, I found your instructions - making it easy again! You’re the best!
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