Syncing SMS messages to Mac iChat archives

In another thread I proposed the syncing of voicemails to iTunes. I also propose the syncing of SMS messages to the iChat archive on the Mac, to preserve the history of your text messaging. Further SMS integration into iChat would also be welcome, as well as a full iChat client on the iPhone.

No, but you can extract the messages from your iPhone's backup for access on your computer. This doesn't provide for transferring the messages only back to your iPhone restored as a new iPhone or not from your iPhone's backup.
http://www.mobilesyncbrowser.com/

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