Keeping a History of Your Instant Messages
| What Is Instant Message History? | Controlling Message History | Viewing All Message History | Viewing the Message History of One Contact | Searching Your Message History | Deleting Messages from History |
What Is...
The Yahoo! Messenger for the Web history feature provides a way to archive your instant message conversations. You can search through the history to find a specific conversation and even search the history for a conversation with a specific contact. Messenger saves the history with your ID so you can access it from any computer with an Internet connection.
Notes:
No other user can access or view your history. Of course, they can save their own history which may include conversations they’ve had with you.
Yahoo! Messenger for the Web doesn’t know about the messages archived in the Yahoo! Messenger client. To see those messages, you must sign into the client and view its archives.
Messenger doesn’t archive instant message conversations that you have with Windows Live™ Messenger users.
How Does the History Feature Work?
You choose whether or not to archive your Messenger conversations by enabling or disabling the history feature (history is enabled by default). After you enable the feature, Messenger creates a container for each contact that you instant message and begins archiving your conversations. Each time you converse with a particular contact on the same day, Messenger adds the conversation to the same archive. If you converse with the same contact on a different day, Messenger begins a new archive in the same container.
What’s Next
You’ll find the history feature very useful when you need to locate the date and time of that important event in your life. Maybe its lunch with your boss or the wedding of your best friend. If you’ve had a conversation about it, you’ll be able to find it through the history feature.
Words to Know
- Contact: a person with whom you interact; someone to whom you might want to send an email or instant message.
- Container: The place in which Messenger archives the instant message conversations that you have with one contact.
- Messenger client: the software version of Yahoo! Messenger that you download to your computer. The client includes features that cannot be found in the web version, such as call features and plug-ins.