<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 5.50.4134.600" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Is there a reason why some clients like JabberIM 1.10 and WinJab 1.1 do not allow you to use an email address as a user name like <A href="mailto:'abc@xyz.com'">'abc@xyz.com'</A>. They don't seem to like the <A href="mailto:'@'">'@'</A>.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>IMHO, if the user enters</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>UserName : <A href="mailto:abc@xyz.com">abc@xyz.com</A></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Server : im.xyz.com</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Then it should connect to the server at im.xyz.com and send the JID as <A href="mailto:abc@xyz.com">abc@xyz.com</A></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>And if the username does not contain a <A href="mailto:'@'">'@'</A> character, then append the server name to generate the JID. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>This way, I can run the server on a sub domain (maybe outsourced to a different ISP) and still have my JID with my main domain name.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Can someone enlighten me on this issue. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Regards,<BR>Ashvil</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>PS - WinJab 0.9.5.7 used to do this the way, I suggested</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV></BODY></HTML>