[JDEV] Jabber Advocacy and looking for M$ Windows client

[dman]

On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 06:58:44PM +0100, Rico -mc- Gloeckner wrote:
| On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 11:28:42AM -0600, dman wrote:
| > [...]    In
| > the page that links to, explain how to register with a jabber server,
| > and provide a list of public servers (or link to the list).
| 
| One could simply provide a Form which creates Configfiles. It would be
| cool if a Standard perl Script would be in the Dist of jabberd which
| one just could "put on" his webserver and then let users create accounts
| via a webinterface.

Not even necessary.  Just let would-be users know that they register
through the client.

| > I do have trouble starting the daemon on my system.  First, it doesn't
| > fork like daemons ought to.  As a result, the init script must put it
| > in the backgrounds.  Due to that, the init script has no way of
| > knowing if the daemon started successfully or not and reporting
| > failures.
| 
| I usually use screen (not having jabberd in the Default Startup, though.)

I need to learn how to use it.  Especially the "suspend and connect
from another machine" feature.  I want jabberd to start at boot,
though.

| > Third, I have no idea why the initscript fails because if I run
| > 'jabberd' on the command line it works just fine.
| 
| Sounds like the typical libpthread Problem.

Ack.  Is there a known workaround or fix?

| > [...]  I've heard WinJab
| > mentioned a lot.  I briefly saw it once.  Personally I don't like the
| > way the GUI is organized.  I like the tradional style of having a
| > tall, narrow, window with just the contact list and then having a
| > separate window for chats.  What windows client(s) do people
| > recommend?
| 
| Personally, under Windows i prefer PSI. Its not as feature-blown as
| other Jabber Clients, but it does its Job and is small and nifty ;^)
| For the colorloving Users, there is Rival Messenger, maybe even Exodus,
| which has a bit new UI (tho can run in classical WinJab Look).

Thanks for these tips.  I tried a few out, and Exodus looks quite
ideal :-).  I especially like the installation method -- unzip this
file where you want and run the app.  If the router at home weren't so
dead I could install it remotely, hehe, (except for the shortcuts in
convenient locations).

-D

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