16 Mar
2003
16 Mar
'03
6:52 p.m.
Hello Greg,
On 16-03 10:36, Greg Fausak wrote:
I've been testing a bunch of soft clients out
and Microsoft Messenger seems to work very well.
It has the notion of contacts that are online.
I guess this is what the Jabber modules is for, right?
This is what pa module is for. pa stands for Presence Agent, this
module can accept SUBSCRIBEs and generate NOTIFY messages. It can be
connected with jabber module and provide presence updates of jabber
presentities using SIP (SUBSCRIBE/NOTIFY). Jabber module can also
send/receive instant messages to/from jabber users.
Right now, for me to start a phone call with Messenger
it is
weird, I have to:
1) click on 'Start a Voice Conversation'
2) click on the 'Other' tab when the new window pops up.
3) Enter a long email address '4695461235(a)augustvoice.net' in the
prompted box.
...
Then my phone call starts. It would be much better if
I could just pick from my list of contacts. Is the jabber
configuration and deployment pretty easy? Does it play well
with non-jabber clients?
Your buddies in the contact list must be online to be able to call
them easily with MS Messenger.
As long as they use MS Messenger too, you should be able to see them
online if they have Messenger running.
If they do not use MS Messenger but they are registered at your
server, you will need pa module to see them online. pa can comunicate
with the registrar and will send you a notification whether a user is
registered (online) or unregistered (offline). So in this case
registered users will be rendered as online.
Unfortunately it is not easy to deploy pa yet, at least you would have
to use a recent CVS snapshot and we cannot guarantee that it will be
stable. Presence Agent will be part of the next release.
By the way, we have about 20 beta users registering
with SER
routing calls to and from the PSTN. It is working very well.
Glad to hear that, thanks !
Jan.