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Asked: 2026-05-12T15:14:43+00:00

I would like to track messages sent and received though Windows Live Messenger. I

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I would like to track messages sent and received though Windows Live Messenger. I would then like to collate these messages into a database (not in the scope of this question).

The question is how and where should I track these messages. The simplest way it to force all clients to keep history files and read those, but it is not really the solution that I am looking for. Is there a way to track them from a server running in the same domain, I have read a little into Windows Communicator, I have also seen a lot of people chat about http://dev.live.com/messenger/ but I was hoping that someone may have addressed this problem already 🙂

I would like to do this using C# .NET 3.5

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  1. Editorial Team

    I managed to find two ways of doing this, though both are not really programmatic solutions, so may not appeal to this audience.

    1. Make use of a Jabber gateway to set up forwards between your jabber client and the other IM networks. Traffic flows between your jabber enabled client and the jabber server via the jabber server. The Jabber server then translates this to the destination networks protocol and forwards the message. Likewise messages from the external IM networks are routed and translated by the Jabber server. An example of this is PSI <-> IceWarp Merak <-> MSN

    2. Make use of Symantec IM Manager to intercept messages from the messaging clients on your network. You will need to either use host files or local DNS rules to convince the your local PCs that Messenger.hotmail.com is actually located at 192.168.0.59 and not at Microsoft.

    Hope it helps other people that may want to do the same.

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