Google Apps migration aftermath – Missing chatlogs

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So after successfully migrating mail, calendar & co. to marrai.de and using it for roughly 10 days, I noticed a problem: some chat logs didn’t show up in Gmail. As it turns out, the reason for this behavior is Google+. If two people circled each other, they don’t need to authorize each other for chatting. The contacts also show up in the chat list in Gmail. So pretty much everything is fine, except for the fact, that the chats are not logged.

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Migrating from Gmail to Google Apps

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Google offers a service called Google Apps (for Business) – which mainly consists of all of Google’s services hosted under a domain you own. It’s free as long as you don’t need more than 10 accounts and decide to forgo some features. After using Gmail and other products for several years (and finding a suitable domain) I decided to make the switch, mainly because I think an own domain looks better but also due to being afraid that Google turns evil and kicks me off its services. Regular backups and an email address I own will make sure that this won’t be too hard.

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