You can backup Gmail chat logs with Gmail Keeper now!

A good news! You can backup your chat logs in Gmail now with Gmail Keeper!

To do that, the first step is to enable IMAP access for your chats (this was not possible not long ago), illustrated in the following screenshot.

backup gmail chats first step

 

Then, in the backup settings window in Gmail Keeper, you must set ‘Chats‘ is a ‘Label’ when being asked, as shown in the following screenshot.

use Gmail Keeper to backup Gmail chats

 

And the backed up gmail chats will be stored in eml format just like the ordinary emails. Check the screenshot below to have a look how the chat logs look like in the freeĀ Thunderbird email client program.

downloaded gmail chats are just look like "real" emails

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