This transport allows JaIM.at Jabber users to register and connect with a existing Yahoo! account to the Yahoo! 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 Yahoo! 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 Yahoo! Transport from the browse list. You can usually do this by double-clicking it’s icon, or clicking it and choosing register.
- Type your Yahoo! passport into the username field (eg, peter_pan) 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 Yahoo! 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 Yahoo! transport. You should see the users from your Yahoo! 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 Yahoo! to your contact list you must translate their Yahoo! passport (eg, Alice_Pan ) 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 Yahoo! from the list
- Type your friend’s Yahoo! 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 Yahoo! ID. Here are some examples:
- If the Yahoo! account is Alice_Pan, and your Jabber server’s Yahoo! Transport address yahoo.jaim.at, then the JID (JabberID) of that Yahoo! user is Alice_Pan@yahoo.jaim.at
Chatting with friends
- To chat with a Yahoo! 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 Yahoo! 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 Yahoo! users as the “Personal Message”
Misc Notes
- If you wish to remove the transport and all of your Yahoo! contacts from your Jabber contact list you must be sure to remove the Yahoo! transport first, followed by the contacts. If you do it the other way around then your Yahoo! contacts will be removed from the Yahoo! server’s contact list too (so the next time you sign in with Yahoo! 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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