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Once, I had sent an email from an IMAP account on my iPhone. The message was sent fine, as the recipient then replied to it. On the iPhone, things seemed ok, as the message showed up in my Sent folder. ''However, the IMAP server itself had absolutely no awareness of the message.'' To rectify the problem, I attempted to move the message to a different folder. I tried the Inbox, Drafts, Inbox subfolders, etc. Nothing worked. The iPhone showed the message in the correct folder, but the server still had no knowledge of it. Not wanting to lose the message, I decided to explore the iPhone filesystem to see if I could recover the message somehow.
These instructions assume that your device is already jailbroken and you have installed OpenSSH to browse files on itand that you have iPhone OS 3.0 or higher on your device. If that's not the case, please [http://blog.iphone-dev.org visit the official Dev team website] for instructions on how to jailbreak your device. Once that's done, open Cydia and install OpenSSH. '''''Please immediately [http://www.iphonefaq.org/archives/97721 change your root password] after you do this to prevent your device from being hijacked.''''' Once that's done, you will need an SFTP client for your computer to browse and transfer files. That is beyond the scope of this tutorial, so [http://www.google.com/search?q=browse%20files%20iphone%20openssh Google is your friend].
To recover your message(s):
