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Chatting with Users of Google Talk and Other XMPP Services
You can allow users of the server to exchange instant messages with users of Google
Talk and other instant messaging systems that use the XMPP protocol.
To allow chatting via Google Talk and other XMPP services:
1 In the iChat pane of Server Preferences, select “Enable server-to-server
communication.”
2 Restart iChat service by clicking On/Off twice.
Changes to iChat service settings take effect once iChat service is restarted.
Saving and Archiving Instant Messages
You can have iChat service save a transcript of all instant messages in a text file. The
service compresses the transcript and saves an archive once a week. The latest
transcript and the compressed archives are in /var/jabberd/message_archives/.
To save and archive instant messages:
1 In the iChat pane of Server Preferences, select “Log and archive all chats.”
2 Restart iChat service by clicking On/Off twice.
Changes to iChat service settings take effect once iChat service is restarted.