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Export old emails to a new Blackberry

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This is how you can export any e-mail to your Blackberry, even after a new activation you can sync more than the standard 14 days of 750 mails. Let’s assume something happened to your Blackberry and you’re forced to reactivate your account. Let’s also assume you don’t have a recent backup, and let’s finally assume you have your exchange mailbox containing all mail. You probably think it’s an easy job to send over something like 90 days from your exchange mailbox to your Blackberry. But after hours of googling you can only conclude to “restore a backup”, “forward mails to yourself”, or “live with it… “. We had a client that didn’t accept any of these options. So we tried to find some more Blackberry tricks. Finally we came up with a rather simple solution. The idea is basically to replay the last 90 days in the exchange server. This is how you can do this:

  1. Activate your Blackberry as you’re used to. And find something like 14 days of mail in your history.
  2. Then use an outlook client to logon to your exchange box. Isolate all mail you want to resync into a .pst file or some other archive. If you don’t know how to do this, please search the web. This task is relatively simple.
  3. Now setup a new MAPI account somewhere for example on your Microsoft Exchange server, but any other mailserver is okay. This is also a standard task. Important is that this mailbox can be reached through the POP3 protocol.
  4. We now install an application like “pop2Exchange” which you can get for free on http://www.roth-web.com/download.html . We configure this tool to fetch the mail from your POP3 box, and inject it in the smtp server connected to your Blackberry-enabled Exchange box.
  5. Now drag and drop something like 50-100 mails at a time to the mapi box from your .pst archive. Start the pop2exchange and after a few seconds you see the old mails in your Blackberry.
  6. Repeat this until you have all your old mail back in your Blackberry.

There’s only one drawback. You lose the actual timestamp of the mail delivery. So the mail order is a little confusing, but if you open an e-mail you can see what time the mail is send.
If you need any help on this, please contact some of the technical engineers of SoftTech Automatisering BV in the Netherlands, we’ll be more than happy to help you.

Mark van der Weide
Senior technical consultant SoftTech Automatisering BV

Thanks to my collegues: Thijs Kuperus and Albert van Boerum.

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