Want to do a Arcsoft MMS backup with DAT files - Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General

Hi all.
I want to write my own app to do backup of sms and mms. The need for writing my own is that I want to also post it to my own server after backing it up, hence I can also download the backup directly from the server.
Using MAPI I have no problems retrieving the sms's. I can also get the sender, subject and received time for the MMS inside the MAPI database, but I cannot find the link between the MMS message within the MAPI database and the acutal DAT file (containing the SMIL) that resides in a folder on the device.
Can any of you please tell me how to link up the message with the DAT file?
Thanks,
Torsen

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