Transfer SMS to PC Outlook - program released

[Guest tomgrek]

Hi guys,

I have finished v0.1 of the program SMS2Mail, which transfers SMS (Text messages) from the SPV's inbox to Outlook on the PC.

See this page: www.geocities.com/tomgrek for the download and a bit of information on it.

Enjoy!

[Guest Vector]

Nice one :wink:

[Guest James]

excellant! will be testing tomorrow!

[Guest Thurstan]

This is absolutely brilliant! I don't know why you even need to make a user interface it works fine as it is... there is another app you can download for deleting old SMSs from your SPV inbox, so you don't need to include that.

Thanks so much for this, mate!

[Guest awarner [MVP]]

there is another app you can download for deleting old SMSs from your SPV inbox, so you don't need to include that.

True and it works well, but I would prefer to do everything sms related in

one app rather than multiple apps. Saves time and maybe space as well :lol:

[Guest Monolithix [MVP]]

Requires Inbox sync though i would assume?

[Guest tomgrek]

Yeah, unfortunate since I always forget to turn it back off afterwards and then can't receive emails for the rest of the day ;)

I was thinking of having it write all the SMS into a text file instead, but eventually decided Outlook would be better. Any opinions?

v0.3 should be along by the end of the week with a couple of speed-ups, emptying the inbox afterwards, and the ability to also sync sent SMS (assuming you save them) for that comprehensive record of embarassing drunken text conversations :lol:

This is more for developers, but: does anyone know a way of spawning a program on the SPV (i.e. SMS2Mail) when ActiveSync loads? e.g., is there an initialisation script by which you can invoke RAPI calls?

[Guest kingbing]

Joining this one a little late, but I think the answer is yes, there is a way - CeRunAppAtEvent. Lets you run an app on certain events, including RS232 detect, which I believe is exactly how ActiveSync works

[Guest Monolithix [MVP]]

Did you get any further with this?

[Guest SFMH3]

You can re-enable emails if you forget to turn active sync off - just go through the email settings and leave them as they are, once you've OK'd all of that it reenables the ability to receive POP mail

[Guest leemrvnt]

why is it when I convert my SMS to email format some of the names are missing

[Guest @ngel]

Well done TomGrek,

Hope to get mine really soon in order to be able to test you s/w...

Keep up the good work...

[Guest fraser]

As others said, this app is a great idea. However, you need to enable mailbox sync for it to work?

My e-mail is actually running with an IMAP server and I don't sync the e-mail in ActiveSync at all. Would I have to enable this to get the mails across? This would be bad for me, as it would sync up the IMAP mails on the phone to the Inbox of the PC, duplicating mails etc.

If so, how's this suggestion: Outlook allows "Categories" to be set for each item. I use this to keep my thousand+ business contacts off the phone, as it's only set up to sync the "Friends" and "Business - Close" category. (the later is my boss, co-workers etc, those in the corporate directory that I may actually have to call)

Would it be possible for this app to set a category of "SMS" in each message? Then, you could set up ActiveSync to only sync mails of that category. Problem solved.

[Guest ist]

great app, tomgrek. here's what i observed:

- i dont see the names of the senders

- some messages are copied into the drafts folder of the phone

- it doesnt work is i set the inbox to sync in the phone's activesync; have to set it in the pc's activesync

- i havent seen any announcement that the program has finished...

good day to all....

[Guest SetLar8]

wow man this is really kool! one possible inprovement tho, is it possible to get it to save each message say a second after each other so in outlook u can still av em in d order u got em by arranging the times. thx again

[Guest James]

please include an sms to text option for those people who do not sync.

cheers.

[Guest docles2002]

guysdo you have an idea where to find "sms tools application"

[Guest Monolithix [MVP]]

www.smartphoneclub.net

:lol:

[Guest awarner [MVP]]

www.smartphoneclub.net

:lol:

Or you could join MoDaCo plus and get the latest version.

Just say I recommended you :D

[Guest Monolithix [MVP]]

Oh yeah, that too hehe.

MoDaCo+ all the way!

[Guest Maverick]

Or you could join MoDaCo plus and get the latest version.

Just say I recommended you :D

I am already a + member... Where do I download it from ??

[Guest awarner [MVP]]

From the Dat Group section of the site. This section of the site is only accessable to Plus members :lol:

[Guest m660xyg]

Is anything happening with the development of this programme?

[Guest chauhan_vijay]

when trying to use this program I get an error saying that my version of windows is too old? I am using Windows Me still on my laptop, can this app only work in a XP or above environment?

please help, I am having my fone replaced by Orange and need my SMS's backing up

Cheers

Vijay

[Guest hk]

Cheers, very shiny.