[TriLUG] Local instant messenger app

[Steve Kuekes]

Thanks for all the advice, Jabber it is.

Joel Ebel wrote:
> 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

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Steve Kuekes