i checked dbus and saw the RefreshHint signal being issued when i do some stuff in the conversations app to change the underlying messages. manually issuing this signal with dbus-send does nothing. sigh.

guess this will have to be a limitation that i have to live with.

to anyone interested in this little script, i've attached it in this message. btw, i don't take credit for a lot of the code inside. i'm new to python so i just went around piecing bits and pieces of other people's work.

installation is simple enough. drop to x-term and run it in the background like so "python NameLookup.py &"

it currently watches for incoming smses from "Maxis" and "Voicemail". that's the way it works for the telcos where i live anyway. i could change it to be more generic and watch for any sms messages that has phone numbers in the body and do a name lookup if people are interested.

thanks.