[Wocky] 2 instances of Jabber, with Adium

[Ken Raeburn]

On Feb 27, 2007, at 11:40, Alicia Hunt wrote:
> If I accidently leave myself logged into Adium at home (running
> Jabber, AIM, Yahoo and Gmail IM) , and then log into Jabber at work
> (running the same 4 protocols),   Jabber cannot handle it,  and
> starts logging me in and out repeatedly,   annoying my Jabber
> contacts.

In the "Accounts" preference pane, if you double-click on one of the  
Jabber accounts, you can configure a bunch of stuff for the  
connection used for that account.  Under "Options", the default value  
for "Resource" is "Adium".  As I understand it, only one connection  
at a time can use a given resource name, but if you change the  
resource name (maybe "work" and "home", if you feel like revealing  
that information, or "Adium1" and "Adium2") you can have multiple  
connections active at the same time.

There's been some discussion in the past about which client will get  
messages when you have multiple connections.  The priority value of  
the connection can determine this, and Adium lets you select priority  
values to use when you're "available" versus "away", though I don't  
know what the default value is (for Adium, or if Jabber has a  
standard default priority value... anyone?).  So if Adium marks you  
as "away" if you're idle for a while, like if you've gone to work  
while leaving yourself logged in at home, and you've set the  
"available" and "away" priorities properly, you shouldn't have to  
worry about missing any messages while you're using one of your  
computers; if you're "away" from both, though, messages could wind up  
not going to the computer you next sit down at.

I understand that most Jabber servers will only send to one client if  
they all have the same priority, but that we could patch our server  
to send to all of them; I don't know if that's been done.

> Gmail IM - I don't know what it does

I think Google's system is based on Jabber, so it should probably do  
the same.

Ken