Ajcody-Instant-Messaging-Topics

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IM - Instant Messaging

Actual Instant Messaging Topics Homepage

Please see Ajcody-Instant-Messaging-Topics

What Happen to AOL IM and MSN?

From the 5.x Release Notes:

Note: Update about Instant Messaging feature - In order to ensure the scalability of our server software and provide a quality experience to our customers, we have removed IM interoperability with AOL and MSN that was present in previous 5.0.0 beta releases. This functionality may be restored in a future release.

3rd Party Client Setup Up Examples

Please see:

Additional information on those clients can also be found here:

Ajcody-Notes#IM_-_Instant_Messaging_Clients

Addresses things like group chat /conference rooms and so forth.

ZCS to ZCS IM Availability

Please review the following bug and note the DNS SRV entries I posted within it.

Integration With External IM Servers

Please see:

IM - Conference Rooms

Please see the RFE I made:

Also the bug/RFE about Conference rooms in Multi-Server Configurations

Embedded IM Requests To Join Chat Session In Html/Email

Formats are (I think, still investigating this):

You'll need to configure your OS to handle the protocol when called to, so that it launches the correct application.

Resource

Related Bugs & RFE's

IM And DNS SRV Records

An example of what I've added to my internal DNS/BIND zone record:

$ttl 38400
zimbra.DOMAIN.com.	IN	SOA	zimbra.DOMAIN.com. ajcody.mail3.zimbra.DOMAIN.com. (
			1207910051
			10800
			3600
			604800
			38400 )
		IN	NS	mail3
		IN	MX	10 mail3
mail3		IN	MX	10 mail3
_xmpp-server._tcp	SRV	 5 0 5269 mail3
_xmpp-server._tcp.mail3		SRV	5 0 5269 mail3
_xmpp-client._tcp       SRV      5 0 5269 mail3
_xmpp-client._tcp.mail3         SRV     5 0 5269 mail3
mail3		IN	A	192.168.0.16
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