Accessing older messages sent via MS Teams client

[nydydn]

Is it possible to access conversation messages that were sent/read in MS Teams client, in Pidgin?

[EionRobb]

Technically, yes. The tricky bit is knowing when to trigger it.

There's been debate over the years in other protocol plugins about the best way to go about it, eg with a "/history 50" command that might bring in the last 50 messages for a room, or if there was a way to download it only into the Pidgin logs, to then be able to do a Conversation -> History lookup (although this is trickier).

Unfortunately due to the way that protocol plugins are separated from the UI it's not always possible to know if a chat has been opened before, eg to automatically pull all history when first joining a group chat, and that's had some issues on non-Pidgin clients.

I'd love some more input on when/where the first place you went looking for history was, to see if there's an intuitive idea that we could hook into, if possible :)