GAIM won't transfer files with Yahoo IM either. I've never gotten it to work right. Breaks my heart, since the promise of GAIM is exactly that of open source: it works with all standards and should let you talk to any IM system.
Next meeting I'll be the guy in the back with the crying towel... JKB On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 23:21 -0400, Joel Ebel wrote: > The status of my investigation shows that GAIM is broken for > registration. Despite having a register button, it doesn't even try. > It just tries to auth, obviously fails, and just gives up. According > the RFC and JEP-0077, the jabber server is doing all of its duties, GAIM > just isn't trying to register. Adium, I imagine, suffers from the same > problem. I'll communicate with the jabberd maintainer to see if he has > thoughts about what's wrong, but GAIM's jabber support leaves something > to be desired. Try a non-broken client like Psi. It works on a Mac > too. Other decent clients are Tkabber, Gossip, and maybe Kopete, but I > don't have much experience with them to know if they register properly. > > Joel > > Joel Ebel wrote: > > I'm looking into this. GAIM appears to be doing something wrong when > > registering a jabber account. I'm investigating exactly what that is, > > but for now, the best I can suggest is to try a different client. > > > > Joel > > > > Benjamin Reed wrote: > > > >> Joel Ebel wrote: > >> > >> > >>> The jabber server is now running version 1.4.4 which has a number of > >>> improvements. Most notably it supports TLS on port 5222 now. If your > >>> client supports this, I highly recommend you use it. > >> > >> > >> > >> I've been unable to register a new account; GAIM spits back a "401 not > >> authorized" response, and Adium just gives back a generic error message. > >> > >> What am I supposed to do to re-register an account? -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
