[stevenyc]

Is it true that during pre-population the BES downloads a sampling of e-mails in the mailbox? If you have more than 350 messages, does it really pick at random instead of starting with the most recent and working back?

[vberry]

Yes, it pulls in the last 200 or the last 5 days, whichever is first, by default.

[jibi]

It populates starting at the most recent messages and works its way back, in your case to either 350 messages or 7 total days - whichever comes first. If there are more than 350 messages or 7 days, it simply stops off at the mark that hits first.

[flexscan]

I want to pick up this thread because I want to know what is the timestamp appeared from the BB ? In my case, some of them are listed as the time when they are pushed from the BES. However, some messages are appeared as normal as they are recevied from my Exchange. Anyone knows the logic behinds?

Thanks.

[greywolfe]

Since prepopulation reads from the exchange mailbox, I would assume it takes its timestamp from there.

jibi: where do you get the 350/7 from? I was only aware of 4.x doing 200/5? Is it a particular version that supports that?

[flexscan]

If all of them are shown the timestamp when they are reading from the Exchange mailbox, it shold be fine. But, it is so funny that some of them showing the timestamp which are the exact time they are delivered.

My one is also 200/5.

[jibi]

its only 200/5. he was saying 350, so i was just using his numbers as an example

...i actually may put up a test server and see if i can manipulate the database values to change it, though. i was looking through the database just yesterday and noticed that they were plain values.

[greywolfe]

Because god knows everyone who gets a BB expects their *entire* outlook inbox to be synched over on handset initialisation *sighs*

[jibi]

you know, that is SO true. i'll see what i can do on the test BES tomorrow if i can find some extra hardware to put it online.

[stevenyc]

350/7 is the largest setting my BES would let me use. I am one of those who did expect my user's entire mailbox to sync, but that's only because we'd always been able to do that with Goodlink before we switched systems. Hopefully RIM will be able to do the same one day.