Hello Frank,
I have used Adium for at least 4-5 years. It is a very good piece of
open source software.
It is possible to secure all communications through Adium using OTR
(Off-The-Record) crypto. [1]
I would leave commenting about the security of OTR to others, but in my
view it is secure (except multiuser chats, and file transfers).
I have Facebook chat, and GTalk configured on Adium, but do not use
them as preferred communications channels.
GTalk certainly was working this morning when I was using my Mac (if it
wasn't it would notify me with an error). You can configure it for GTalk
by following the steps. [2]
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-the-Record_Messaging
[2] http://support.google.com/talk/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=24075
I hope that helps.
Bernard
On Mon, 02 Jul 2012 06:42:23 -0700, [email protected] wrote:
I wonder if people here recommend the open source freeware Chat tool
Adium?
http://adium.im/about [1]/
And whether they would recommend using it with Facebook?
Or, if not, Google Talk?
Thanks! FS
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