Jabber and Yahoo gateways

I'm having the same problem of seeing the 'cloud' of the other user typing but getting no content.

So, as a test, I chatted with myself using two Jabber IDs and servers, one logged in via Adium and the other iChat. It worked perfectly. This tells me that it's not the ports nor firewalls, it's not iChat, it's not anything I can do on my iMac. It makes me think that the issue is the Jabber servers. <sigh>

The reason I sigh is that I've subscribed at five Jabber servers, and none work so far for me. There were the two Melvin suggested (freenet.de and netlabs), jabber.org.uk, sweeney.ath.cx, and swissjabber.org. I've had problems with not all of them working for both protocols I want to use (MSN and Yahoo) as well as this mostly one-way issue.

So does anyone have any suggestions? Signing up for every Jabber server out there until I can get one to work with iChat doesn't seem too appealing.

Just adding another person to this list who is having the same problem. I finally got Yahoo to apparently work with a Jabber server (jabber.freenet.de) and I got the Jabber list to appear in iChat. But like other folks, I can send a message, but I get a quick cloud like they are replying, but I get no incoming message.

When I try to use the jabber.org.uk server, I try to register with the Yahoo transport, and like someone else I get an error saying "Cannot retrieve registration form".

If anyone else has figured this out I would sure like to hear about it.

Thanks.

I get the same problem. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

I'm doing the job with jabber.ccc.de.
So far it works pretty well.
Let me know how it works for you!

Umm What did you do different because I get the same problem with this server as I get with almost all the others.

Are you able to send and RECIEVE messages with yahoo ?

I have to apologize and contradict myself: yahoo doesn't work correctly, it has the same problem signaled by Joe Muscara in a previous post. I noticed that, when I add the yahoo roaster in PSI I get two requests of authorization from iChat to add the yahoo.jabber.blablabla. I've tried all the possible combinations: accept both, only the first, only the second, but no positive result. In a working configuration on PSI I have two yahoo registrations: the first one is simply yahoo.jabber.blablabla, the second yahoo.jabber.blablabla/register. I'm guessing that this is something that apparently confuses iChat.

Having the same problem so I asked the question on the jabber.org.au forum.. (a very helpful bunch of folk) Within the day I got the following answer back from Trejkaz..
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There is apparently a bug in the Yahoo Transport which incorrectly sends messages with both "composing" notifications and the message body.

As the specification says that both must never occur in the same message, clients such as iChat have made the assumption that they never will. It sees the "composing" notification, and then discards the entire message.

The onus is on the Yahoo Transport developer to fix this one. 🙂
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So there ya have it...

Found a server that fixed the Yahoo Gateway. (jabber.zim.net.au) I have tested it and it works great. Hope it works for you too.

Thats good news, that's the transport I mentioned in my post above. Trejkaz said that they would patch their Transport to resolve the problem for iChat. I hadn't realised they had done it already.

Good folk.

Thank you for the info... that Jabber server worked for me too. Perfectly for Yahoo!

Thanks for the help!

The server that worked was jabber.zim.net.au

Thank you!!!!!!

It works 🙂

Hans

What is Psi?

Why not drop into the jabber.org.au forum and thank Trejkaz directly for patching their Yahoo Transport on Jabber.zim.net. I was impressed by Trejkaz's immediate diagnosis of what the problem was with iChat , and I'm also grateful that Trejkaz took the time to patch their transport just so that we apple iChat folk could use it.

Thanks for the tip.

Another question, does anyone know how to get rid of the new Yahoo! email notifications that pop up in iChat?

Thanks.

Psi is another standalone instant messanger that uses the Jabber servers. Here is some links that may help explain how to set it up.

http://psi.affinix.com/

http://www.jabber.org.au/

http://allforces.com/2005/05/06/ichat-to-msn-through-jabber

Hope that helps