Text Message Directory

[Guest KingRizzo]

Hey Guys,

This is my first post and I was wondering if anyone can tell me what the default directory for text messages on a MDA Vario 2 (WM5.0) is.

I'm trying to run some changes on my PDA but I need the default directory so I can link both ends together.

Please help.

Thanks

[Guest chucky.egg]

Text messages are stored as entries in a database, not files in a folder.

I can't recall the name of the database, but if you have a search here you should find it

[Guest The Doctor]

Text messages are stored as entries in a database, not files in a folder.

I can't recall the name of the database, but if you have a search here you should find it

cemail.vol in the root of your device ;)

Phil

[Guest KingRizzo]

cemail.vol in the root of your device ;)

Phil

Thank you so much for your guys responses, as I have got a little bit further to my goal.

Ok, the thing is I'm trying to install this iPhone skin which was on this website and I'm trying to link one of the "Today" icon boxes with my text messages. I thought have a direct link to the CEMAIL.vol would solve the problem but it didn't. Can anyone let me know what other ways I could get one of the icons to link with my messages.

Thanks again guys.

[Guest KingRizzo]

hey guys,

No need for a reply as I have finally figured it out.

As you cannot open CEMAIL.vol as a normal application, I went thru the whole WINDOWS folder and the the .exe & .lnk for your text messages is called TMAIL.

Thank you for you help.

[Guest chucky.egg]

You should have said that was what you were after and we could have saved you the time.

There are other neat things you can do with TMAIL - stick this in a text file, rename it to late.lnk and run it on your device:

99#TMAIL.exe -to "07111999111" -body "Sorry, Im going to be late" -service "SMS"

[Guest mwright]

You should have said that was what you were after and we could have saved you the time.

There are other neat things you can do with TMAIL - stick this in a text file, rename it to late.lnk and run it on your device:

99#TMAIL.exe -to "07111999111" -body "Sorry, Im going to be late" -service "SMS"

WOW! I didn't know any of this!

Is it documented anywhere?

[Guest xeno1]

99#TMAIL.exe -to "07111999111" -body "Sorry, Im going to be late" -service "SMS"

Just a quick question, is the "07111999111" the phone number of the person the txt msg is being sent to? My wife likes to txt msg me while she knows I'm driving and this would be so cool to tell her to shut the hell up before she causes me to have an accident trying to txt her back. Somehow she seems to be able to drive and txt pages worth of messages with no problem, but I don't seem to be quite that talented.

[Guest chucky.egg]

@mwright

Yes, it is kind of documented, but not by MS anywhere I remember

You can start HERE for more info and an MMS example, but the options are:

-cc

-bcc

-transport

-to

-subject

-body

-attach

New, blank message: 20#\Windows\tmail.exe -service "SMS" -to "" -body ""

New Outlook email: 99#\Windows\tmail.exe -service "ActiveSync" -to "" -body "" (note the cAsE of ActiveSync)

@Xeno1

Yes, 07111999111 is the mobile number, obviously you need to change this to be the number you want the message to go to.

Edited March 29, 2007 by chucky.egg

[Guest mwright]

@mwright

Yes, it is kind of documented, but not by MS anywhere I remember

...

New, blank message: 20#\Windows\tmail.exe -service "SMS" -to "" -body ""

New Outlook email: 99#\Windows\tmail.exe -service "ActiveSync" -to "" -body "" (note the cAsE of ActiveSync)

Cheers for that!

I did not see the "20#" and "99#" in the other examples. What do they mean?

[Guest xeno1]

Thanks chucky.egg. That's a pretty usefull little tool, especially since WM5 no longer has the speed txt msgs that 2003 had. By the way, I was just kidding about telling my wife to shut the hell up in a txt msg. I would never talk to her like that. Besides, if I did she'd probably beat the holy livin sh*t out of me. ;)

[Guest chucky.egg]

Cheers for that!

I did not see the "20#" and "99#" in the other examples. What do they mean?

The numbers preceeding the # are the length of the string (apparently)

I've never had any problems using "99" (even if the string is shorter than that) but I guess if you had a really long string then you might need to increase that number. try it and see.