[GRLUG] Pidgin & XMPP Room List

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 09:28 -0500, Joe Vanderstelt wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 1:54 PM, Adam Tauno Williams
> <awilliam at whitemice.org> wrote:
>         I have an Open Fire XMPP server used internally for instant
>         messaging.
>         In either Spark or Gajim entering a conference room is
>         trivially easy.
>         Now that Pidgin (2.5.2) works with Open Fire again (after
>         roughly three
>         years) I'm trying to figure out how on earth one enters a
>         conference
>         room.  There is Tools -> Room List which opens a dialog and
>         asks me to
>         "select a conference server to query" and provides a blank
>         entry....
>         Uh... Ok, that's stupid.  The obvious guesses of
>         conference.mormail.com
>         (the conference service on the XMPP server),
>         conference at mormail.com, or
>         xmpp.mormail.com (hostname) all fail.  At leas the later give
>         me a 404
>         error while the first two apparently invoke the
>         do-nothing-at-all-pretend-like-it-never-happened execution
>         path.
> Are you trying to create or enter an existing room?

Enter an existing room (rooms are created on the server by admin).

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