Thanks Temas and Michael. But I am still not clear, why we should not support this.
Why not do it like email clients. Pop and SMTP servers run on a different subdomain machines. But Email addresses are always in the form of [EMAIL PROTECTED] not [EMAIL PROTECTED] IMHO, The current client behavior is too restrictive. It forces me to a JID that is tied to the name of the server that I connect to. This is unacceptable to the customers who want to outsource their IM hosting to an ISP that does Jabber hosting. If the suggestion that I proposed is followed, then it becomes very easy for folks to contact an ISP that offers Jabber hosting to become jabber enabled, without disturbing their current web/email hosting setup. (And without getting involved in Packet forwarding between two ISPs). This is a real issue for customers who want the IM address to be the same as their email address but want to use a different ISP for the IM hosting part. This will help the nascent IM hosting market using Jabber to develop. All I am asking is that if the username contains '@' , then the clients send that as the JID. If not then continue the current behavior. The are benefits to my proposal (and a older version of WinJab was doing this too). What are the issues that outweigh these benefits. Regards, Ashvil ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Muldowney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 9:52 PM Subject: Re: [JDEV] Question about UserName and Clients > Generally this should be encoded as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Just like > it's done to use msn-t with passport accounts. > > --temas > > > On Mon, 2002-04-15 at 06:24, Ashvil wrote: > > 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 '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'. They don't seem to like the '@'. > > > > IMHO, if the user enters > > UserName : [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Server : im.xyz.com > > > > Then it should connect to the server at im.xyz.com and send the JID as [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > And if the username does not contain a '@' character, then append the server name to generate the JID. > > > > 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. > > > > Can someone enlighten me on this issue. > > > > Regards, > > Ashvil > > > > PS - WinJab 0.9.5.7 used to do this the way, I suggested > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > jdev mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev > _______________________________________________ jdev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev
