[JDEV] New: docu on groupchat and Jabber 1.2

[DJ Adams]

Hi Dennis

> I found though that Gabber (as of 0.7.0, dunno about the
> soon-to-be-released-0.8.0) does not display the message when the notify
> script logs off jabber straight away. I have to put in a sleep(2) before
the
> disconnect - then gabber shows the message sent by notify.pl

Hmmm, interesting; I don't have Gnome or Gabber (my world revolves around
putty from Win32 workstations) but I'll see if I can have a play.

>[...]
> For example, when the email would come in, the notification script would
look
> in our LDAP database to see which user sent the email (based on the From:
> header), it could then send the email (or a summary thereof) originating
from
> thatuser at myjabberserver/email .. ie the receiving end of an SMTP transport
> done really easily. The receiver, using a jabber client, could simply hit
> reply. (of course that needs another transport to support this).
>
> What is your opinion of this idea, and/or what would you suggest is the
>[...]
> Any thoughts? :-)

Generating Jabber messsages from non-existent Jabber users doesn't quite
feel right to me.

How about this:

instead of a type="normal" message, send a type="headline" (Eliot had
suggested headline type msgs when he first read the article) with a mailto:
URL, and the subject as the description, or whatever, so the recipient of
the Jabber message just clicks to the URL which has a good chance (?) of
taking him to a mail composition window in whatever helper app is configured
for their URL-handler (browser). No user 'spoofing' and no need for a
special 'return' transport. Sure, might not be supported everywhere, it's
just an idea.

> PS DJ keep up the good work :)

Hey, cheers

dj