Logging buddies' login/out events?

[parakeet]

Hi,

Is there any way I can use Adium (or anything else) to log the events triggered by my contacts (login/logout/status change etc.)?

You see, my Powerbook was stolen last week. I was a Proteus user. Proteus was confgured to automatically go online to my four IM protocol accounts when a net connection was present.

It's a long shot, I know, but I have created four new honeypot accounts and added my(old)self as a buddy to each. If my machine and Proteus now come online when I'm online, I should see myself...

But I need to be able to log that stuff as I won't be available all day every day to watch out for this. I'm using a replacement Windows PC at home and have managed to get an IM app called Miranda, plus a lastseen plugin, to log all appearances of my old self to a file. I wonder if it's possible to use Adium or anything else on my workplace Mac OS X to do the same?

Many thanks

[Adam Iser]

My initial thought would be to set up an event (get info on each of your accounts) to open a message window when they sign online. Adium will show status changes in the open message window - although you may not get any indicator of what time the window was opened, I'd have to try it to see.

[JediL1]

You could just start a new message with each of your screen names (Cmd-N). Then keep the window open and minimized and whenever they sign on/off or change status it'll show that in the message window.

[cr2010]

Hi, I've got similar problem. My friend's MacBook was stolen last week. We can se his Google Talk account online... But now what? Is it possible to find an IP address of of macBook using Adium loged into Google Talk account?
Thanks for any idea.