MSN Gateway for Jabber – User Guide

This transport allows JaIM.at Jabber users to register and connect with a existing MSN account to the MSN Messenger networks from their Jabber roster.

Usage Guide

You must already have a Jabber client (a program to connect to a Jabber server) set up with your Jabber account to follow these instructions

These are generic instructions, intended to be useful no matter which Jabber client or what operating system you are using. Please read through them in their entirety before beginning.

 

Getting started – Registration

To register with your Jabber client, follow these steps.

  • First, you must check that your Jabber server has the MSN gateway installed. To do this, look for a menu item or button labelled something like “Browse Services”, “Service Discovery” or “Transports/Gateways”.
  • To proceed you must be able to choose to register with the MSN Transport from the browse list. You can usually do this by double-clicking it’s icon, or clicking it and choosing register.
  • Type your MSN passport into the username field (eg, Billy@windos.org) and fill in your password.
  • When you click the register button you will receive a Jabber authorisation message (to do with allowing users to view your online status) for each user on your MSN list. This can be a lot of messages. Some clients provide an option in the advanced section to auto-accept authorisation requests. You may wish to turn this on before continuing, and then turn it off afterwards. Please note that this flood will only occur once, upon registration of the transport.
  • Click the register button, and accept any subscription messages you see.
  • You should now be registered with the MSN transport. You should see the users from your MSN contact list appear. The
    se steps will not need to be repeated.
 

Adding a friend to your list

To add a person who only uses MSN to your contact list you must translate their MSN passport (eg, Billy@windos.org ) into a Jabber ID. This i
s very simple to do. Many clients will do this for you automatically if you tell them to:

  • In Psi, choose “Add Contact” from the menu.
  • Select MSN from the list
  • Type your friend’s MSN ID in the box
  • Click the “Get Jabber ID” button, then click “Add”, and you’re done.

For clients that do not support this, you must manually translate their MSN ID. Here are some examples:

  • If the MSN account is Billy@windos.org, and your Jabber server’s MSN Transport address msn.jaim.at, then the JID (JabberID) of that MSN user is Billy%windos.org@msn.jaim.at
 

Chatting with friends

  • To chat with a MSN user you perform the same process you would for a Jabber user, simply double-click their name in your contact list, and type a message.
 

Setting personal details

  • Out of all the data in your Jabber vCard, only the photo and your nickname can be sent to MSN users.
  • You can set a nickname in Psi by going to Account Setup->Modify->Details->Edit Personal Details. In recent
    versions this will allow you to set your avatar as well.
  • Your Jabber status message appears to MSN users as the “Personal Message”
 

Multiple Resources

Jabber allows you to log into your account multiple times. For example, you could be logged in at home, at work, and on your laptop simultaneously.

Because MSN Messenger does not have any concept of this, messages will always go to your highest priority resource by default. It is important to set the client you’re using to a higher priority that the ones that you’re not.

If you do happen to send a message to somebody from a lower priority resource, then messages from that person will be sent to that resource until:

  • You log out from that resource.
  • You send a message to that person from another resource.
  • That user closes the chat window on their machine.
 

Things that don’t work yet

  • Please do not add yourself to your contact list.
 

Misc Notes

  • If you wish to remove the MSN transport and all of your MSN contacts from your Jabber contact list you must be sure to remove the ICQ transport first, followed by the contacts. If you do it the other way around then your ICQ contacts will be removed from the ICQ server’s contact list too (so the next time you sign in with ICQ Messenger you will have no contacts)
  • Jaim.at update to support Remote Roster Managment for transports to legacy networks like AIM, ICQ, MSN, YAHOO and XMPP.

 

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