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Directly from Gmail's integrated chat feature, is it possible to chat with Windows Live Hotmail contacts? I already added them, of course, but they don't show up in the chat thing.
I googled it and some old stuff about a Jabber client came up, but it is kind of outdated.
Any help is appreciated.
It appears that I may need to design my own. There is a Python project named Palaver which implements nearly everything, so it may be that I need to do very little coding:
palaver is a multi-user chat component for Jabber and XMPP servers. The intention is to support all features of XEP-0045 as well as the relevant extended discovery features of XEP-0128.
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Currently all basic multi-user chat features are supported, including some extra things like ban lists. More features are on the way, and the intention is to fully support the entire protocol. Specific information on protocol features can be found in source:trunk/XEP.txt#latest. There is also Plugins support for extending different features of palaver.
It is more than what I want, and I haven't dug into it yet, but it may be a nice, quick, and easy fix. Although it looks more like a plug-in that goes into the jabber server itself, so it may not be suitable, and if so I'll just port the existing confbot to Twisted Words.
-Adam
Yes. Gmail uses the Jabber chat protocol which has been around for much longer than gchat and is supported by a number of open source command line chatting programs. One of my favorite terminal chat clients is Centericq which supports jabber along with many other chat protocol. It is ncurses based:
To connect to gchat use these settings:
Username: Your Google Talk username (without any @ symbol or domain information)
Password: Your password
Login Server: Enter the portion of your email address after the @ symbol. For example, gordon@example.com will enter example.com as the Login Server value.
Use SSL: Yes
Manually specify connection host: Yes
Host: talk.google.com
Port: 5223
Keep connection alive: Yes
Best Answer
No you cant. Windows Live uses MSN Messenger, not Jabber. The chat on the Gmail interface can interface to AIM, but not MSN.