Physical location for SMS/MMS in Windows Mobile 2003 SE

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martinrygaard@gmail.com - 16 Feb 2006 08:45 GMT

I´m working on backup program to Pocket PC as a school-project and I
need to locate where my SMS and MMS is stored in Windows Mobile 2003
SE.
I´ve search the web and the MSDN Library, but all articles and
documentation I´ve found doesn´t give me any answer. I know it isn´t
on the SIM card and for a moment I thought I found it in
/Windows/Messaging, but I pretty sure that it is some sort of
temp-files.

Can anyone tell me where the messages are stored?

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Peter Foot [MVP] - 16 Feb 2006 09:19 GMT

The mail is physically stored in CEDB tables in the object store in versions
prior to Windows Mobile 5.0. You can use MAPI (Messaging API) to access the
data to archive it in whatever format you want.

Peter

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martinrygaard@gmail.com - 16 Feb 2006 14:07 GMT

Ok, thanks. We found something about MAPI just as you posted the answer

:) so it was nice to know that we were on the right track. We have some

problems accessing the data though. As you probably can sense we are
rookies in this.

We found some examples with some C++ code. We are trying to create a
dll-file with some unmanaged code (C++) that will function as the link
between our C# code and accessing data in Windows Mobile 2003, where
the dll-file should deliver methods to access data. Is this the right
approach? Or are we way off?

(We use Visual Studio 2005)

Thanks for your answer so far.

> The mail is physically stored in CEDB tables in the object store in versions
> prior to Windows Mobile 5.0. You can use MAPI (Messaging API) to access the
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> Can anyone tell me where the messages are stored?

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