Sat, 10 Mar 2007
Looking at my web stats, I saw a few visitors from Google who were looking for
information on how to get old messages onto a Blackberry. Since I didn't
actually have that information, I'll add it here.
Suppose you have some old messages in your IMAP inbox which have been purged
from your Blackberry because they are too old, and you would like to get them
back so you can reply while on the subway. Just copy them from your inbox back
to your inbox. You can do this in a single action with mutt--using save will
copy the messages and delete the originals. But Thunderbird doesn't seem to
allow you to create a copy of messages within a folder so you will have to move
(copy and delete original) the messages to another folder, and then copy them
back to your inbox.
The copies will then look like new messages to the Blackberry service, and your
Blackberry will download them. If, within your non-mobile MUA, your sort your inbox
by date or date-then-thread (mutt's threaded mode), your inbox should appear
the same as before making the copies, but if you sort your messages in the
order they exist in the IMAP store (including Thunderbird's threaded mode), the
copies will appear at the end (or beginning, depending on your sorting
direction) of your inbox.
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