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Q: Instant messenger within apple network

Is there any instant messenger software for Apple Networks? I have several apple computers in my network, is there an application (besides iMessage) that supports instant messaging within a network? Thanks!

Posted on Apr 28, 2016 4:03 PM

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  • by Ralph Johns (UK),Solvedanswer

    Ralph Johns (UK) Ralph Johns (UK) Apr 29, 2016 12:44 PM in response to Jainore
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    Apr 29, 2016 12:44 PM in response to Jainore

    hi,

     

    To be clear the app is called Messages.

    it comes with two Accounts - the iMessages one that needs your to Add an Apple ID  and the Bonjour one that just needs everyone to also be using Bonjour.

     

    Bonjour accounts are also in iChat app in older versions of the OS.

     

    @mac.com, @me.com linked to iCloud and @icloud.com IDs are also valid AIM Screen Names

    You add these in full as an AIM/AOL option

     

    Messages can also login in to a Jabber Server.

    Google Email IDs will work with GoogleTalk the Jabber server they run.

     

    Yahoo IDs can also be used (if everyone has one).

    The drawback with this in Messages is that it is text only chats and has no File Sending or Video and Audio Chats.

     

    Psi is a Jabber app if you did not want to use Messages.

    Yahoo for Mac does not work in versions of the Mac OS in Yosemite (OS X 10.10) or higher.

    AdiumX can join lots of services.

     

    If you have Office you have MSN

     

    Facebook used to run a Jabber server but no longer do so but do still have an access page to Messaging (in most cases that is a separate tab in a browser).

     

    There is also Trillian.

    This started out like AdiumX (Mac Only) as a multi-service client on Windows but more recently there have been Mac and Linux as well.

    However the page no longer seem to make that clear although Searches suggest it does.

     

    NOTES

    AdiumX does Bonjour.

    I have not tested this to see if it will do Group Chats (the iChat and Messages versions do not)

     

    For the Adventurous https://github.com/yakyak/yakyak

     

     

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  • by Jainore,

    Jainore Jainore Apr 29, 2016 12:45 PM in response to Ralph Johns (UK)
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    Apr 29, 2016 12:45 PM in response to Ralph Johns (UK)

    Thanks for the help Ralph! Looking into Github now.

  • by Ralph Johns (UK),

    Ralph Johns (UK) Ralph Johns (UK) Apr 29, 2016 12:49 PM in response to Jainore
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    Apr 29, 2016 12:49 PM in response to Jainore

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    Also Paltalk

     

    Some of these I thought had died it has been so long since I looked them up.

     

    YakYak seems to have dropped being a multi-service client like the others and concentrated on Google

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

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     G4/1GhzDual MDD (Leopard 10.5.8)
     MacBookPro 2Gb (Snow Leopard 10.6.8)
     Mac OS X (10.6.8),
     iPhone and an iPad (2)