For capped MSN, ICQ, Yahoo, Jabber users

[Xyber]

I found a local server for Jabber some time ago at http://www.jabberafrica.org/ , you can also grab a client for Jabber, called JAM, from this site.

Jabber enables you to send messages via the Jabber server to many different services like ICQ and MSN if that server supports it. The kewl thing is that this server is local so when you'r capped and MSN and ICQ don't want to connect use this one and you can still chat to your friends on the MSN, ICQ, etc networks.

 

[mikkelz_za]

Nice, thanks.

 

[ic]

Interesting, have bokmarked that site, and it definitely is hosted locally: www.jabberafrica.org. A 196.30.15.146 [TTL=86400] [ZA].

Xyber, how did you find this site?
(...please divulge hidden secrets...)

 

[Vox Populi Vox Dei]

Are there any ports that need to be opened for Jabber to operate? Because I enter in my hotmail address and it says it can't connect.

 

[Sushi]

Thanks, this is great!

 

[mikkelz_za]

You have to create an account with them first, "jabberafrica" or something. Works fine for me.

 

[Vox Populi Vox Dei]

Thanks, didn't see that button .

However I went to connect with the MSN Transport, I did my username, password etc but it only showed 1 contact even though I have about 20 contacts....does it only show people who are online?

 

[Xyber]

Dominic, check in that list of contacts window, should see some kinda arrow thingy to the far right of the window, click it and it will expand to show your offline contact (well, that might work, I see all my offline contacts when I click that)

ic, I was looking around the jabber site (http://www.jabber.org/) for some clients when I found a list of public servers and noticed that there where servers in SA too, Jabber Africa seems to be only stable one though, been using this service for about 4 months now and no problems. The other SA server seems to be jabber.obsidian.co.za , if anyone tried it let us know what transports they support and how stable the server is.