IM-history is a service that saves your instant messaging history and contacts online and provides you with convenient access to them. With IM-history, you can:
- save your existing history in a reliable storage and don´t worry about it anymore;
- synchronize your chat history from different computers instantly;
- merge your chat history and contacts from different messengers;
- access your chat history from anywhere;
- use convenient tools designed especially for searching and organizing your chat history and contacts.
We value your privacy. All data is stored via secure connection and is protected on servers. We will not sell or rent your data to anyone.
IM-history is a completely free service at the moment. In the future we plan to show small and non-obtrusive ads for free accounts and paid, ads-free and feature-rich, "pro" accounts.
- Pidgin (tested on v.2.1-2.3, but other versions can be supported too)
- Pidgin perl plugin
To check if your pidgin perl plugin is installed click Help->About and find "Perl:Enabled/Disabled" string.
You can install pidgin and perl plugin by command (libpurple and libpurple-perl will be installed as dependencies)
- $ sudo yum install pidgin pidgin-perl
Ubuntu users
One of the ways to install pidgin on Ubuntu is the following:
- add the following lines to your /etc/apt/sources.list:
- deb http://repository.debuntu.org/ feisty multiverse
- deb-src http://repository.debuntu.org/ feisty multivers
- run the commands:
- sudo apt-get update
- sudo apt-get install pidgin
Ubuntu users will also need to install libqt3-mt and curl packages:
- $ sudo apt-get install libqt3-mt curl
Run downloaded installer (IMHistorySetup) in console as a user. All client components will be installed in your home directory, so you need no root privileges (so if you run installer as root - client will be installed for root user only).
Read the “Terms and Conditions of the service” and accept them by pressing `q` and proceeding with install.
The client software is distributed under the GPL – read and press 'q' to continue.
Installation complete:
Reboot you computer. Usually it is not required, but some distributions (like Ubuntu) needs it for changes to take effect.
Start Pidgin, go to its plugin list and check that IM-History plugin is enabled.
Client Suite was carefully designed to run without disturbing you. It will start automatically on Linux startup and sit silently in the tray bar.
In case your distribution does not support programs autorun – run imh-tray application manually:
- $ imh-tray &
Tray icon will appear in tray-bar:
Different icons mean different status:
- disconnected
- everything is OK
- updating, please wait
- something went wrong
Tray icon menu:
Login - Login to IM-history service and start saving messages.
Logout - Disable message saving and logout from service.
View messages - View all saved massages.
Chat history is shown in your default web-browser.
Contact list contains all your contacts
from all your instant messengersMessage list shows messages
according to currently applied filterMenu bar
Notification area is a place where IM-History communicates with you
Click on a contact to filter messages with this contact only. Contact will be expanded showing the avatar and action bar. The action bar allows you to show contact details, manage metacontacts, "mute" a contact or delete it
Just input letter-by-letter what contact you are looking for and the contact list will be filtered to present you only contacts that contain the text you entered. Click on to clear the filter.
If you use more than one instant messenger you probably have several contacts for the same person, but in different protocols. The "Metacontact" feature allows you to combine them into one meta-contact.
To create a new metacontact:
Select a contact to be the base for a new metacontact and open its details page
Select another contact to combine with the previous one and press "Add to metacontact" button
Both contacts will be grouped into one metacontact.
Select a contact and press "Contact details"
Information about IM account(s) and metacontact management
Personal details retrieved from IM account(s)
 | Disable saving history for a contact. The existing history will be kept. The contact will be moved to "Mute" list. You can enable saving history again revoking the contact from the list. |  |
 | Delete a contact and its history. Contact will be moved to "Deleted" list and can be later recovered but with empty history. |  |
Message List contains all your IM messages, older to newer from top to bottom. Messages are added instantly as they appear. You can remove a message ( | ||
You can apply one or more filters. If you filtered messages by some contact, this contact's button will appear here to allow you to clear this filter. |  | Navigation Bar allows you surf your history easily |
For full text search input your text, press "Enter" or click on and explore your search result. You can also apply other filters to your search result. Click on |  |
If you find something inconvenient, or lack an important feature, please share your opinion on our forum here: http://forum.im-history.com/viewtopic.php?p=2932#2932 or write us at support@im-history.com.
) or bookmark it (
) to quickly find later (using "Filter bar"). 
to cancel your search.