Category Archives: Blackberry

Sending urgent messages from unix

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In AIX, in order to add the ‘Importance: High’ tag, it appears that you have to preformat your message and send it through sendmail. This can be done with a special message tag file:

contents of urgent_head:

Subject: test
MIME-Version: 1.0
Importance: High
From: name@domain.com

cat urgent_head /etc/motd | /usr/sbin/sendmail user@domain.com

This works in AIX and two of the linuxes that I tested which alias to mta. I am still trying to figure out the one that aliases to exm.

Make you blackberry alert you only on urgent emails

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  • Go into your email on the blackberry so that you see your message titles
  • Hit the ‘option’ button, on mine it has something that looks like this:
    • <--- you have to be looking at emails when you hit this button otherwise you go somewhere else.
  • Now, scroll down to option and you will see ‘Message Options’
  • Under ‘Email Filters create a new filter:
    Select ‘Forward with Level 1 Notfication’ when ‘Importance: High’
  • Now go all the way back to the main options menu (out of email) and pick ‘Profiles’, I change my profile to ‘Phone Only’ so that I don’t get a vibration on normal emails.
  • While still in ‘Profiles’ scroll down to an almost hidden ‘Advanced’ option and then pick ‘Phone Only’ again (this was confusing for me but it is ‘Advanced’ phone only features
  • Now change the ‘Level 1 Messages’ options for ‘Vibrate+Tone’ for ‘In Holster’ and ‘Out of Holster’

Now send yourself an email marked ‘Urgent’ or ‘High Importance’, it should show up on your normal email and blackberry with a red exclamation point and your blackberry should now alert you.

Make your blackberry delete messages when you delete them from your email

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  • Go into your email on the blackberry so that you see your message titles
  • Hit the ‘option’ button, on mine it has something that looks like this:

    		• <--- you have to be looking at emails when you hit this button otherwise you go somewhere else.
  • Now, scroll down to option and you will see ‘Message Options’
  • Under ‘Email Reconciliation, pick Delete Mailbox & Handheld