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Yep! It's finally here! Google says it loud and clear in their What's New page:
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Now if your friends have chat history enabled, you can send them messages even when they're not online. Just enter a message into the chat window as you would normally, and they'll get it the next time they sign into Google Talk. In Gmail, offline messages can be searched and organized -- just like instant messages in their chat history.

So when you receive an offline message in Gmail, you should get something like this:

Here is how it looks after you click the message:

So it's pretty simple, as you'd have expected (it's Google, dohh). One last thing to notice is that only Gmail users can receive offline messages and only if you're not chatting off the record when the message was send. Read more.

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