[JDEV] MSN-t

[David 'TheRaven' Chisnall]

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>I could do with some indication of conferencing.  When you are part of a
>MSN conference you get seemingly individual messages from each MSN
>contact, but a message to any one of them appears to go to all.  Not
>sure, exactly how this could be done better.
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This is a configuration error on your server.  You need to add the 
following lines to the <service> section of your transport's config:

<host>conference.msn.your.domain.org</host>
      <conference id="conference.msn.your.domain.org">
       <invite>More then one user has joined this chat session.  Join 
this room
to switch into groupchat mode.</invite>
       <notice>
          <join> has become available</join>
          <leave> has left</leave>
        </notice>
      </conference>

If you are running in a separate process you will also have to add the 
host line to the msnlinker service section.

With these configuration options enabled, then every time a second user 
is added to a conversation the server will send an invitation to join a 
groupchat on conference.msn.your.domain.org.  If you accept this then 
the groupchat works fine.  Jabber users can create conference rooms 
on conference.msn.your.domain.org

This process is cumbersome, but does work.  What it needs is client 
support to:
a) Automatically accept invitations to join conference rooms on msn 
transports' conference servers.  (You'll get messages from them even if 
you don't join).
b) Do the room creation partand switch to conference mode if a third 
participant is dropped into the conversation.

Ideally support these features should be granted a start on the clients 
list part of the jabber.org site with a title of 'close MSN integration' 
or similar, so people comming from MSNMknow that they can use that 
client with no loss of functionality.