[JDEV] Using jabber as a central server for an Intranet

[DJ Adams]

On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 11:06:51AM +0530, Ritu Khetan wrote:
> Hi Dj,
> 
>   You are certainly missing the point here.Let me explain it again:
> 
>   I want to have a central jabber server[exposed to the Internet] which would take care of 
> offline messages,etc for other locations which are offline, as I had mentioned earlier, 
> these servers do not have dedicated connections, so they might be available online off 
> and on.THis central server would therefore forward messages to a particular location 
> whenever it is online.
> So, in short, I dont want any of the locations to interact directly, but to send messages via 

Ah, ok, I get you now. I thought you meant that all the
servers were on the same physical internal network. If 
they're on different transient connections, there's nothing
out of the box on the open source server (there may be
something in the Jabber Inc version, I dunno) that will 
enable you to use a Jabber server as an intermediate
'hop' and have it retry (like email). (It's a different story
if the different locations are just client connections, of
course). Then again, there's nothing stopping you writing
a component to do this, sort of a 'delivery' component...

dj