29 Jun ’07

Jabber web client with transports

Just a small thing: Colibri IM is a web-based java jabber client. The reason why you'd want to use something as unstable as jabber transports to communicate with your MSN / ICQ friends instead of MSN or Meebo's webchat interfaces?



Here's the reason: I'm not using Colibri IM as my major chat client, no. Google's gtalk chat app that is embedded into my gmail is what I use (which is also the reason why I don't use Meebo. I like the chat conversations to be stored just like email conversations. Don't have to write it down somewhere if you made an appointment or got an address over chat.) the Colibry IM is just to subscribe and handle jabber transports that allows you to chat with your msn / icq friends through your gmail. And the nice bit of gmail? It treats chat conversations like email, so that you can easily retrieve something from them through search.

First step is to log in to google talk, through the java applet: as server fill in talk.google.com, username: your full emailadres, password: your email password, set the port to 5223, and click on 'use ssl'.

Next step: click on Jeti, account, manage services, add a jabber server which has an MSN transport in the server field, and click on change server. Then select a MSN transport server , and you are done! http://www.jabber.org/user/publicservers.shtml
You should get your msn list popping up now in Jeti. Log out of Jeti, log into gmail, and you should have another contact in your chat list with the name of the server you used as MNS transport. Your contacts should also be showing up now. Happy chatting!