Maybe you could suggest a good XMPP server, such as icq.com , jabber or livejournal, that would accept automatic account registration from an xmpp client, not from their website.
Thanks! ;)
Many servers support XEP-77. You can find a list here:
http://xmpp.org/xmpp-software/servers/
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I'm using Jitsi on client side and ejabberd on server.
It seems that the chat sessions are specific to clients, i.e. if I'm logged in to the same account from 2 different clients, there will be 2 separate sessions, and one can't see what's happening in another.
Is it possible to share the sessions for the same account on all clients? Like Skype or GTalk.
If yes, is it a server configuration or client?
Thank you.
I think what you're looking for is XEP-0280 Message Carbons. Basically the server takes care of relaying the chat to all of your online resources so that you have the same chat session across all devices.
You even get chatstates from all of your other resources so you can infer whether or not you should show an unread IM notification to the user on your resource or not. You'll need client and server support for this, and it looks like ejabberd has implemented it via this module.
I read through https://developers.facebook.com/docs/chat/. Now I wonder if anyone knows a list of XMPP protocols which is usable on facebook xmpp server.
Another question is if it is possible to retrieve old chat messages via XEP-0013?
Thanks.
The link you give has a list of supported protocols.
It does not include XEP-0013.
I'd like to write an application which monitors a mailbox (ideally a Gmail mailbox). In brief, my question is how do I listen to incoming emails? I could always keep pulling emails but I am afraid that this doesn't scale very well.
How does iOS do it with Gmail? I think they are using Exchange protocol, but I am not sure. Does anybody have an idea on how to do it? Is there a solution which already does something similar? I just need a hook.
Thanks!
The most universal "API" for monitoring a Gmail or Google Apps inbox is the IMAP protocol. There's some information about this here:
Gmail IMAP OAuth for desktop clients
For Google Apps inboxes (not general consumer Gmail accounts), you can also use the Gmail Inbox Feed, which provides an AtomPub XML feed of unread messages in a Google Apps inbox:
http://code.google.com/apis/gmail/docs/inbox_feed.html
The "API" to GMail is IMAP.
In IMAP the IDLE feature is used to tell the server to notify the client when there are changes to the mailbox.
IDLE is defined in RFC 2177 IDLE is an optional IMAP feature so this may or may not work on other IMAP servers.
If you just want to talk to Gmail, they have a REST API you can use and it supports push notifications (e.g. webhooks):
https://developers.google.com/gmail/api/guides/push
But again this is a Gmail-specific API, which may fit you requirements or not. If you are fine just being specific to Gmail it is likely easier and better to work with from a web/mobile type environment than something like IMAP.
I'm still not quite sure what XMPP is. However I understand it is a protocol which drives many IM services such as FB and GTalk.
What I'm asking is, is it possible for FB accounts to chat to other XMPP accounts (e.g. GTalk) ? Like #hotmail.com emails can email #gmail.com (decentralized) rather than only hotmail.com to hotmail.com etc.
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Sadly not. At least currently. Facebook does not federate, meaning it does not make or accept connections to or from other XMPP servers.
Of historical note is the fact that Google did not originally federate gmail.com. They enabled this 6 months after they launched Google Talk. There's hope for Facebook yet. Maybe.
Facebook does not provide an XMPP server, just an XMPP API, so it's not possible to have all the operations available at a XMPP server.
As you can see from this link
Facebook Chat should be compatible with every XMPP client, but is not
a full XMPP server.
Is it possible to send Yahoo email (or any other free service like Google mail) using YQL?
If yes, please tell a little bit about the procedure.
Thank you.
You could use YQL to talk to the Yahoo! Mail Web Service. The mail web service uses OAuth for authentication and can communicate via JSON-RPC (or SOAP) which is no problem in YQL.