There's a thread on how to important text messages from older nokia phones to the n900.

Or Is it possible to get text messages from my n900? I need to somehow get some SMS off my phone and use it as evidence to a paypal dispute.

thanks.

Basically, all SMS are stored within a sqlite database. Extracting single SMS from there is no voodoo. It's another question wether this will be evident in any dispute.

thanks for the reply. i'm not just looking for one exact.. so it's still impossible to get one whole conversation? or i'm going to have to take a picture of it

Just as I said: it's all stored in a sqlite database. Selecting a conversation with a contact or from a whole time period is just a question of building a (simple) SQL query. You then have the possibility to format the results as you like.

but I guess, you don't want to bother with sqlite interface and querying the database by yourself. So you pointed out a quite good missing app. Hopefully someone with knowledge of GUI building will start such an exporter. Me, I could help you out with a sqlite commandline if that helps for the moment.

Oh, when being in a dispute and needing proofs of conversation made, it might indeed be better taking snapshots of the displayed messages. Results of a self made SQL query may be modified in any form (or even the query may be wrong and showing non relevant results), so there would be no evidence in.

In this sense all data on N900 can be manipulated, and can be challenged.

Only real proof would be evidence of your SMS (with contents) from your provider.

Right, all data can be manipulated, but you need much more knowledge and know-how (and criminal intension) for manipulating data in the system-integrated database than just extracting information stored in there and manipulate them afterwards.

Imagine the following and tell me if this would happen in real life:
You're in a dispute and you are to prove that a special SMS was sent / received.
You: "No problem. Here it is, I printed it out"
Your opponent: "What's that? Looks like a kind of database dump or what? Where did you get that?"
You: "Mmmh, I just wrote a little script which extracted the relevant information from the phone's database and formatted it nicely for a print"
Your opponent: "Ah, that's OK, I'll accept that evidence. You've won"
(not for serious )

In fact: I guess best proof is a message displayed in the phone's original software for handling messages. Then it is the opponent's job to prove that the displayed message or the software is in some way corrupted.

ah thats one thing I could do with, its a pain trying to find old texts!