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MSN, Yahoo, and ICQ contacts in iChat!

Thanks for the great guides iindigo and Lollypop. I'm trying to get all my friends to switch over to jabber, but untill I can convince them to, I'll still be able to talk to my buddies on MSN and Yahoo. If only everyone in the world would just switch over to jabber at once... for Windows users using Trillian, it has jabber support; for Mac users Adium and now iChat have jabber support; for Linux users GAIM has jabber support. There's no excuse not to use it. :)
 
Lollypop said:
Im having trouble registering yahoo and msn with here.dk, any luck with it on your side wrc fan?
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yeah, I can't get any registered though here.dk. I was successful with jabber.linux.it and it has all the services even though the jabber.org page doesn't list them as being available.

Edit: I also successfully set it up at jabber.fr
 
I had no problem registering on jabber.linux.it either, also finally got registered for msn on here.dk.

I had trouble using Yahoo on jabber.zim.net.au, lets home linux.it works better! :eek:
 
seattlemaclover said:
So I have jabber all set up, and can use iChat. But how do you add new contacts, do you have to use PSI?
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No, just use the plus sign at the bottom left, then click new person from the window that pops out, and type in the account name. If the person is on jabber you do there full username@server.tld, if the person is on msn you do username%server.tld@msn, for yahoo username@yahoo, etc...
 
Hi guys,
If you use growl and you want an alert when your friends become online, I have written(modified actually) an applescript that will alert you when your friends become online, away, or idle. By the way, thanks a lot for the tip.

get it here --> www.andrew.cmu.edu/~pongmong
 
No, just use the plus sign at the bottom left, then click new person from the window that pops out, and type in the account name. If the person is on jabber you do there full username@server.tld, if the person is on msn you do username%server.tld@msn, for yahoo username@yahoo, etc...
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Does that work?? None of my friends are online and it just says awaiting authorization. In my opinion the integration with Adresss book isnt so great. :mad:

Hi guys,
If you use growl and you want an alert when your friends become online, I have written(modified actually) an applescript that will alert you when your friends become online, away, or idle. By the way, thanks a lot for the tip.

get it here --> www.andrew.cmu.edu/~pongmong
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Thanks, I was wondering how i can get this nifty Aduim like feature!
 
Lollypop said:
Does that work?? None of my friends are online and it just says awaiting authorization. In my opinion the integration with Adresss book isnt so great. :mad:
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If you right click on the name you can choose request authorization. I just assumed that it would work through msn and yahoo, as I tested and it works through jabber. But perhaps not?
 
I have requested authorization, but no-oone is online today so it just keeps on saying awaiting authorization. But the logic sounds sound! Will give feedback when something happens.

If you right click on the name you can choose request authorization. I just assumed that it would work through msn and yahoo, as I tested and it works through jabber. But perhaps not?
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okay - i finally got it working! :D i've been looking forward to this for a long time. hopefully Adium won't even have to touch my clean Tiger system.

but it was a pain to add 20+ contacts manually to Psi... i don't understand why you can't just login through the MSN gateway and then have all your contacts come up?

oh well... i'll have to wait until some come online to see if this whole thing works...
 
its suppose to add all your contacts whn you activate the gateway automatically. Aduim is cool, its ability to send files is much better than ive experienced jabber gateways so far.
 
More yahoo woes

Lollypop said:
oliverw, what server are you useing, cus Im having the very same problem! The people on my other end are using windows Yahoo client. maybe we can solve this problem ourselves.
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Has anyone figured out what is going on here? I am experienceing the same thing with yahoo bubbles but no words.

I am able to use the transport through psi, but not ichat. Any ideas what might be causing this? Any crazy solutions?
 
Still no luck with yahoo either, I have to close and restart iChat everytime to be able to chat again every time I close my powerbook lid as well... Im hoping for a few chances to iChat with 10.4.1!
 
"Not Authorized"

I get a "Not Authorized" message under the MSN transport in my buddies list. I have tried requesting authorization. Any way to fix this? Will it affect how all this will work?

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how many lists?

Thanks for the tip. Are you all using 2 windows now (3 including Bonjour) or have you condensed all of your contacts to just one buddy list?

I have a buddy list as well as my jabber list. If possible, I'd like to just use one or the other but it seems that I may not do so?

Also, haven't had a chance to chat with anyone from Yahoo yet. Are we able to use iSight to chat with them as we can through the Yahoo client?
 
H2Orange said:
I have a buddy list as well as my jabber list. If possible, I'd like to just use one or the other but it seems that I may not do so?
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You can add an AIM transport, but it's better to keep with the iChat AIM service (see below)

H2Orange said:
Also, haven't had a chance to chat with anyone from Yahoo yet. Are we able to use iSight to chat with them as we can through the Yahoo client?
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Nope, you can only do text chatting through the transports.
 
Cool

I used Mundo Chat. Actually, you don't even have to install a Jabber client. Mundo Chat has a webmessenger in there so all you have to do is register a new account and add the MSN/Yahoo services. All I had to do later was to configure iChat to use jabber-hispano.org as my server. :D
 
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