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Instant Messaging Services Now Working

Our instant messaging service is now available to any member of the University.

For those that are interested, its a Jabber based service running on WildFire server. Wildfire is an open source application.

It will be interesting to see what the take up of the service is, and how students and staff use it (or not) compared to a commercial service (eg MSN Messenger).

The main advantage of our own service is that it is a very safe environment, and you can be fairly sure that the person you are talking to is who they say they are.

If you are a member of the University and want to give it a go, download the Spark client from here: http://www.jivesoftware.org/ . The address of the service is im.newport.ac.uk, and you use your normal username and password. Obviously you need someone to talk to - if you haven't got anyone else then speak to me - mwebb02@im.newport.ac.uk (or you can search in the directory).

Enjoy!

Posted: 07-17-2006 5:17 PM by Michael Webb | with 3 comment(s)
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JW said:

I'm trying to connect using Adium but with little success, any clues?
# October 1, 2006 5:03 PM

Michael Webb said:

Hi,

I've just tested it and it works for me. I selected Jabber as the account type, usual username and password, and im.newport.ac.uk as the server name.

Do you get any specific error mesage?

Michael
# October 3, 2006 4:36 PM

JW said:

Yup, tried that. I get the error:

20080409@jabber.org (Jabber) : Gaim Error

Write Error

The same happens when I add the '@im.newport.ac.uk' to the Jabber ID. I'm trying to connect from Resnet, if that makes any differance.
# October 6, 2006 6:30 PM