[JDEV] Yahoo Transport

[C. Scott Ananian]

On Sun, 19 Dec 1999, Thomas Charron wrote:

>   Isn't actually part of an official team, we're just working on it under the
> 'core' team.  We nearly have a working copy, that will log in, pass messages,
> etc, the only thing really left to implement is actually sending Yahoo messages
> back into Jabber.  Right now, it simply prints out that it's recieved them..

Could you write a quickie description of how to set up the current
transport agent?  Or any transport agent at all, for that matter; the
documentation is a little unclear about how the jabber-server plug-in
architecture works.  I've been browsing through the source, but haven't
figured out (for example) where to tell the yahoo-transport stuff what my
yahoo username/password pair is and how it maps to a jabber username.

[I'd like to write a mail gateway for Jabber, since I'm the type that
 prefers email to instant-messaging.  The idea is that the mail transport
 would bounce all Jabber messages to a mailing address, and mail to (for
 example) jabber+<username>@<jabber-server> would get translated into an
 Jabber IM to the proper person.  Note that only a single mail account
 named 'jabber' is needed to set this up on the server side; the +
 character is a (little-known) comment character within e-mail addresses.
 That said, I'm not finding it easy to understand the current transport
 architecture, and so am somewhat at a loss where to begin coding this
 up.]
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