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Pidgin does not load all messages in a correspondence?

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I use Pidgin to chat with Gmail contacts. In cases when:

PC is off

A message was not sent from pidgin

I do not get these messages in the pidgin.

Is there a way to fix this?

For example, if I send a message via Pidgin, it appears in Hangouts app on Android almost instantly. If the PC if off and I send a message from Android phone, then turn on the PC and Pidgin, I do not see such messages.

Other example, I need the same behaviour like on Skype. No matter which device I use, when I start Skype, all messages are there after a minute or so.

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answered 2 Years ago housecoarmer · Accepted Answer

Google's Chat (previously called Talk, now Hangouts) uses the XMPP protocol to send and receive messages. XMPP does not support cross-device history.

Google thus added a proprietary extension to Hangouts to enable that feature, using GMail as storage backend. Unfortunately, there is (currently) no way for Pidgin to use that extension.

If you are really set on having the history synchronized, you could use the Hangouts web client on Google+.

EDIT: There is at least one XMPP extension for centralized history[0] and client synching, as well as "Carbon copy"ing messages sent from one client to other open clients, but Google, Facebook, and others who built chat services on XMPP decided it was more in their interest to silo off than to work together and allow interoperability. They could have published their extension as a spec.

[0] Example: http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0313.html . There may be others.