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@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.