What is my Jabber account and why has it kicked me out?

Hi

"Jabber" is a name to describe Google or Yahoo, or AOL, MSN, Facebook etc.

In your case, you probably set a gmail or Hotmail account in Mail and/or Calendar and it automatically synced to iMessage.

If you don't use the Google/Hotmail messaging, and only want to use the iCloud/iMessage account, then you want to unactivate it, so that "Jabber" doesn't show up again.

To do so, go in to the settings in Messages and untick: "activate this account":

Hope this helps 🙂

Not the regular Messages.

You can always reactivate it.

Hi,

If you add other accounts to the Messages app after activating the iMessages account then by default (if you don't name them in the Description box) that take the name of the Service they join up to the point you have a second AIM valid Name or a second Jabber valid Name.

In My List my accounts are Named in the Description Box

AIM is Aol Instant Messenger so the Add Screen Shows AOL. You will see in the right hand pane under Account Info it says it is AIM.

You will see in the list several others are also AIM Valid accounts.

If you don't Name them yourself then the account info is used (like the iMessages one) when you have two or more for that service.

Google and Facebook run Jabber servers.

They are unlikely to work with a Hotmail ID (which is MSN and not Native to the Messages app).

You seem to have Added an Account as Google and tried to use a Hotmail ID

As the Google Servers only allow IDs that end @Googlemail.com or @gmail.com it will not work and you will be "Off Line".

The ID is "accepted" when you type it in as it conforms to an email Address.

Japib has their Facebook account called chat.facebook.com which happens to be the server name and that it how it appears in the list on the left in their Pic. It will also be in the Window Menu like that.

See also an older iChat version when you could only login one account type of each

http://www.ralphjohns.co.uk/iChatPicsFolder/2%20iChat%20menus/slides/8_iChat_Men u_Window.html

There were only AIM and Jabber back then.

9:18 pm Tuesday; December 30, 2014

Hi,

Adding MSN accounts using Jabber account for iChat/Messages

https://web.archive.org/web/20141113142915/http://allforces.com/2005/05/06/ichat -to-msn-through-jabber/

As you can see by the date in the Link these instructions are quite old.

You need a Jabber account on a Jabber Server that has an MSN transport.

You then use the third party app that can register you with that Transport to link in your MSN account (the Instructions use Psi)

This means your Buddy list at the jabber server can also point to the Transport server which is in turn pointing to the MSN server.

As Buddies names/IDs are User Name@Server name the Buddy would have two @s in the ID so you replace one See the SirEltonJohnny bit in the Instructions.

MSN would then be Text Only

9:28 pm Tuesday; December 30, 2014