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What is a good and simple workplace instant messenger?

What is a good messenger for company networks? It should be a free, malware and adware free Windows (XP, Vista and 7) program with a simple user interface and small memory footprint. It can be based on an external server (like MSN or ICQ) but I am especially interested if there are solutions that do not need a server (such as a peer-to-peer program).

Intranet Messaging [closed]

Are there any, preferably free (as this is for a Not for Profit Organization) software for Intranet Messaging? If the software is serverless, it would be better.

How do I turn off ads in Digsby?

The latest version of Digsby now puts an ad at the bottom of the chat window. I would find this tolerable if it would not animate! I hate animated ads so much I turned off gif animation entirely, both in Firefox and IE. What can I do about digsby?

Google Talk Chat/Conference Solutions

I started using the old confbot python conference script in 2005 for my family. This essentially implements an IRC like conference room over Google Talk (or any Jabber/XMPP server). It has significantly increased family communication, and has become rather indispensable due to this.

Recently it's begun to have severe problems (people can't see each other in the conference room) which has nearly killed the usefulness of it.

Before I develop my own software or debug confbot (probably not - it uses an older jabber library that hasn't been updated since 2003) I wanted to see what other solutions exist that meet our needs:

• Supports Google Talk (Sorry, I'm not going to try to convince everyone involved to move to a new IM or other client)
• Free and open source (ideal, but not required)
• Runs on Windows (Not a web service run by someone else)
• Implements basic functionality such as kick/ban, emotes
• Remembers who joined the conference room across restarts
• Obeys Do Not Disturb and Busy status
• Archives all activity

-Adam

Can an employer read all messages sent through Lync?

With Microsoft email and messaging, Microsoft servers used to be located onsite, so it allowed employers to query the data sent by employees there.

Does Lync in its cloud version offer any way for employers to log in and read any messages sent by company employees? Or is there something like a database that they can query for that information?

Or is the clouded Lync message data not accessible to employers?

Does the clouded Lync have a web interface for querying messages, or is it more abstract like a database interface?

Yes, I know that IMs aren't secure, but I'm curious what the literal process is for retrieving those messages in Lync, not the general process of retrieving data that applies to any data set.

How to communicate between two PCs on the same LAN?

Another user and I are on the same LAN and often wish to send each other URLs or several photos, or such. Is there a program or a feature that would allow us to communicate simply? like a local PC-to-PC IM?

Windows 7 (PC 1) to Windows XP (PC 2).

Save Telegram chat log

I am not able to save chat log with Telegram. Telegram on Android, Mac OS X, Windows and Linux do not give this option to user, as far as I know. This is a basic feature and it is disappointing and surprising that this software does not have it.

There is a request for this feature here.

Maybe there is a workaround because all history is loaded on the device when you scroll back.

Is it possible to capture/save chat history loaded in the device, make a local backup copy of chat log?

Is there a CLI client for Skype chat conversations?

I'm looking for an interface to Skype that I can run in a CLI on windows (cmd.exe). All I really need is access to my IM conversations. Is there such a beast? Or is there an API for creating such a beast?

Does my Skype status ever change to 'Away' automatically?

Does my Skype status ever automatically change to Away? If so, when does this happen?

IM protocol with message receipt confirmation

Is there any instant messaging protocol (or plugin for Pidgin) that uses a read receipt layer to verify whether messages have actually been delivered and resend if not? I've had problems recently with AIM and MSN where IMs simply do not get through, and it introduces an unacceptable level of unreliability.

Office Communicator Tabbed IMs? Windows Tab Utility?

Is there a way to get Office Communicator + Tabbed IM windows? Either something directly supported by Microsoft or a third party utility that will aggregate windows into tabs that belong to the same application?

FWIW, I'm using office communicator 2007

Configure Pidgin with office proxy

My gtalk runs behind a proxy at office. To connect, I have to set the following:

Proxy: IMProxy or 171.22.218.212

Port 8085

Proxy requires authentication: False

I tried but was not able to configure Pidgin with my office proxy.

What are the settings required to make pidgin connect to Google via a proxy?

GTalk

Here is the screenshot of my gtalk Network connections settings page which works perfectly:

Pidgin

Basic:

Advanced:

Can XMPP/Jabber support editing of messages and offline message like in Skype?

I've got used to edit about 30% of my messages in Skype. Also I expect my messages to be delivered in the end independently of whether the peer is online now or not (i.e. eventually the message will arrive when we both will be online).

I haven't seen these features in Jabber yet although.

What XMPP clients (or what protocol extensions) should I use to support convenient chatting?

Actually want the chat to be more like wiki (putting links, also editing peer's messages, revision history, some formatting), but just using a wiki software is not that (no normal per-contact history, no normal notifications, no "use is typing...").

Do any Windows IM clients support Adium styles?

I know I can't actually get Adium on Windows. Are there any Windows IM clients that at least support Adium styles, specifically Contact List Styles and Message Styles?

Pidgin is heart-breakingly close, but as far as I can tell, it's not there yet:

• Pidgin-WebKit would be perfect, except it doesn't seem to compile on Windows.

• adium2pidgin-themes converts Adium Xtras into Pidgin themes, but only supports sound, status, and emoticon theme types:

  -t TYPE, --type=TYPE  type of theme, may be: auto, sound, status or
                        emoticon, default: auto
  

• The Pidgin project is considering merging Pidgin-WebKit into Pidgin itself, but that sounds like a long way off:

  Most notably, we've been talking about merging the webkit integration branch into what will become 3.0.0. Eventually, this would allow the support of Adium's message styles, although it may not happen right away.

So, are there any Windows IM clients that support Adium styles today?

Can we have a linux terminal chat client for gmail?

Does a gmail terminal chat client exist or anyway one can write it?