[TriLUG] Local instant messenger app

[Joel Ebel]

You should look into Jabber.  I'm using a jabberd14 server and users of 
my system use clients such as Psi and Exodus.  It's an extremely 
powerful and extensible system allowing interserver communication and 
transports to legacy IM systems.  Have a look at www.jabber.org. 
jabber.trilug.org is also running a jabberd14 server. 
jabber.eos.ncsu.edu is running jabberd2, but they're also having some 
stability problems.  If you want to try out jabber servers before 
setting it up, get a client and connect to one of the many public 
servers available, including jabber.trilug.org and jabber.org itself 
among many others.  The jabber standard, XMPP has recently been accepted 
by the ietf and the appropriate RFCs have been published.  It's a real 
internet standard now!

Joel

Steve Kuekes wrote:
> I'm looking for a local instant messenger app that I can run entirely 
> within my corporate network.  I've to ~20 internal users all running 
> Windoze that want to be able to IM each other.  It needs to have some 
> kind of easy buddy list type interface.
> 
> I've got a slow internet connection so I'd like to have something that 
> uses a server inside my firewall.  I have a linux mail/web/firewall 
> server that can run the server side.
> 
> I quickly looked at sourceforge, but didn't see anything that looked 
> like this.  Any suggestions would be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks