Because you're a WLUG'ger you might want to use the jabber.meta.net.nz server, kindly hosted by Cuchulain and Isomer. (If demand increases we might put a Jabber server up on the WlugServer).
Chances are you have an ICQ or MSN account and a lot of people you'd like to keep in touch with, while you get them all converted to also using Jabber. Servers can run transports, which are server-side conversions between Jabber's XML and the native tongue of other IM systems.
For example, you can add the JIT Transport (Jabber ICQ transport) at jit.jabber.meta.net.nz. Fill in your ICQ account details, and it will automatically pull down your server-stored ICQ contact list and add them to your Jabber roster. They get given JIDs of uin@jit.jabber.meta.net.nz, and can be addressed as such.
Add as many transports as you want, and have a play around.
This is what the "resource" is. So you could log in from different machines, and give each a different resource name. If a message is sent to just your account (without specifying a resource) then it goes to whichever of your clients has the highest "priority" (which you can set at log in time).
If you are not online when a message is sent to you, your Jabber server will hold it for you until you next connect.
Click on the Subject: to get a list of actions.
Transports provide a gateway to other communication services such as multiuser conferencing, ICQ, AIM, Yahoo, MSN, IRC, or even SMTP (ie Email). Your Jabber server will have a list of transports you can use, normally with descriptive names like icq.jabber.org so they are easy to guess.
Note: the DNS names below are fictional, make sure you check what your Jabber server uses.
ICQ and AIM actually use the same protocol, so the AIM-t transport can be used for ICQ as well. However, the JIT transport handles ICQ messaging and ICQ-SMS a lot better than the AIM-t transport.
If your Jabber server uses the AIM-t transport, you should subscribe to the icq.jabber.example.net agent, using your ICQ username and password, and then you can add contacts of the form icqid@icq.jabber.example.net. You can send SMS messages by sending something like the following to any ICQ recipient on your roster: SEND-SMS:+cellphonenumber:<message>
If your Jabber server uses the JIT transport, then use that instead. Its a lot nicer, supports user searching correctly, handles SMS better, so on. You can add contacts of the form icqid@jit.jabber.example.net for ICQ, or phonenumber@sms.jabber.example.net for SMS.
The mod_auth_plain module is commented out in the package sample configuration, presumably to prod users to use secure authentication methods. Unfortunately, creating new users requires mod_auth_plain. Uncomment this module and registration will work.
One page links to JabberNotes:
