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Thursday, February 19th 2004, 11:06pm

Can kopete 0.8 to use jabber to gateway to yahoo/aol/msn?

I read some info on jabber. Jabber documents claim that jabber to msn/yahoo/aol gateways exist, and that you should only have to create one jabber ID to talk to users on all systems.

My buddy showed me this on his windows jabber client.

Can I do that using kopete 0.8?

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Friday, February 20th 2004, 4:19pm

More info:

I have selected an account on jabber.com because that server claims to have a gateway to the msn service.

http://www.jabber.org/user/publicservers.php

Shows me that they have this gateway.

Can I use that gateway with kopete?

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Saturday, February 21st 2004, 5:12am

hmmm... interesting, very interesting.

I haven't heard of this before, but then again i dont use jabber. As far as i am aware, one isn't available for kopete. (i cd be wrong :))
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Saturday, February 21st 2004, 5:18am

To the best of my knowledge, and my experience with jabber is limited, so dont go just on my work, but to the best of my knowledge gateway services are part of the jabber protocol, and thus, kopete wouldnt need any special support for gateway servers, as long as kopetes jabber plugin supports all of the protocol. To find out if the jabber plugin for kopete supports gateway check the faq on kopete.org.
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Monday, February 23rd 2004, 8:42pm

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To the best of my knowledge, and my experience with jabber is limited, so dont go just on my work, but to the best of my knowledge gateway services are part of the jabber protocol, and thus, kopete wouldnt need any special support for gateway servers, as long as kopetes jabber plugin supports all of the protocol. To find out if the jabber plugin for kopete supports gateway check the faq on kopete.org.


It would have to add support. In the windows client that I saw, when you setup the yahoo client piece, the default connection for yahoo was listed, but there was also a "jabber gateway" configuration. In other words, instead of connecting directly to Yahoo, connect through this jabber gateway that has a connection to yahoo.

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Monday, March 22nd 2004, 2:05pm

i'm looking for this as well. while using 'Psi' on gnome 2.4, i was able to just set up my jabber account and connect to the icq network via the icq-gateway. seems to me that kopete is lacking this feature.
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Monday, March 22nd 2004, 10:43pm

Kopete is not lacking that feature AT ALL (or at least version 0.8.1). All you have to do is:
1. Click with right mouse button on your jabber connection icon (an yellow light bulb in my case)
2. Select "Services"
3. At server write the address of the server that has a ICQ/MSN/AOL/Whateva gateway (server list with features is available at http://www.jabber.org/user/publicservers.php as pointed out by mgarrett69) and click "Query server"
4. Select the service that you want and click "Register"
5. Input the user/pass you ALREADY have for that medium and click "Register"

That's it. Now you can message your friends that use ICQ/MSN/AOL/Whateva

Unfortunately I was unable to find a way to unregister from the service and thus every time i logged in with my jabber account i logged out my ICQ account. The only possible solution I found for unregistering was installing another jabber messanger and removing the service from there. I would appreciate it if someone who knows how to unregister replies to that post describing how to do it.

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Tuesday, March 23rd 2004, 11:23am

thanks a lot! must've been blind :D
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