How to use MCabber (a Jabber client) with Google Enterprise Account

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My company has signed up with Google Apps for Business so I have a Gmail address of the form myname@mycompany.com.

I use MCabber as a chat client and am unable to connect using my working mcabberrc file (which works with my @gmail.com account) with the JID set to the company email address.

I have tried several different configuration settings related to SSL and setting the server/port, but the more research I do, the more it seems it should not be necessary (just setting the JID is expected to work).

With the default mcabberrc, MCabber reports:

01-20 21:36:08  Connecting to server

01-20 21:36:08   with resource mcabber.c387d12b

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Just copying the End User's answer that worked. I confirmed the same problem previously and compared my settings. This worked.

FYI: Set the server=talk.google.com, port=5223, and enable ssl and disable tls, and set ssl_ignore_checks=1

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