Questions tagged [adium]

Adium is a free instant messaging application for Mac OS X that can connect to AIM, MSN, Jabber, Yahoo, and more.

Adium is a free and open source instant messaging application for Mac OS X, written using Mac OS X's Cocoa API, released under the GNU GPL and developed by the Adium team.

Based on the libpurple protocol library, Adium can connect you to any number of messaging accounts on any combination of supported messaging services (see further down for the list) and then chat with other people using those services.

Adium does not host any IM services. Adium is a third-party client for connecting to services run by other people (mostly companies).

Key features:

  • Support for a wide range of different Instant Messaging services
  • Tabbed chat windows
  • Mac OS X integration
    • Address Book integration
    • WebKit Message View: Theme your chat windows
  • Combined Contacts: Merge your contacts so that each one represents a person, not an account
  • A sophisticated events system (including Growl notifications)
  • OTR Encryption
  • File Transfer
  • Xtras and many, many other customization options
  • Translations: Adium speaks 27 different languages

Official site.

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Receive Adium messages in Applescript

I'm trying to write a simple chat bot for Adium, that will post "lol" and "haha" and answer basic questions in annoying group chats that some people keep adding me to. I've covered the "lol" part with a few simple send and delay commands in a…
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Can Adium or Thunderbird-Chat fetch history of conversations that are received and sent when it is closed?

I am using [Adium (https://adium.im) or Thunderbird-chat] to connect to my google hangouts account for instant messaging. => I have realised that on its talk history, Adium only shows the messages that are received when it is running. While it is…
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Connecting iOS app to Ejabberd Server hosted on Amazon

I hosted Ejabberd chat server on Amazon and added two user there, when I tried to connect Ejabberd server through Adium, it asks for certificate then only it gets connected, now I'm developing chat application in Swift using Ejabberd server and…
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How to parse through XML that contains HTML

I'm trying to parse through Adium's XML format in Python. I'm looking to build a clean database of chats but clearing out all the formatting and hyperlinks. I'm using xmltodict right now to create lists/dictionaries to iterate through it. But I'm…
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Using node-xmpp to show a user as online through Adium

I am running a local ejabberd 2 server and I have 2 users. jeremy@pbx.dev and billy@pbx.dev. Both users have each other on their rosters added from the ejabberd admin webportal. I'm using adium on OSX logged in with the jeremy account. I would like…
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Wrap a libpurple plugin for Adium

David G. F. wrote a libpurple Plugin for Whatsapp. I tested it with pidgin and it works for me. Now I try to wrap it for Adium (Issue on github). I tried to wrap a libpurple plugin for Adium with this post. I can build the plugin and then add it to…
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how to create Adium chat tab with AppleScript

I use an AppleScript script to send msg to my contact through Quicksilver. It looks similarly like this (link), but the line to send the message to the contact is: tell account of im_contact set newChat to make new chat with contacts…
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Convert Yahoo Messenger Logs to Adium Logs

Is there a way to convert logs from YM for mac to Adium ? Thanks Cezar
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XMPP Chat States with Pidgin

I am writing a chat support application that connects to an XMPP server using the SASL Anonymous mechanism. When a user opens my website in their browser, using Socket.IO and NodeJS the server will initiate the anonymous connection with my XMPP…
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Unable to connect to ejabberd server with Adium

I have installed ejabberd 20.02 with homebrew (Mac OS Catalina). When trying to connect to ejabberd server with Adium I receive this error message in the ejabberd log. I am not sure how to proceed.
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Adium Applescript Growl Notification

I am writing a script that is initiated every time a contact signs on to Adium. My goal is for a growl message to appear when certain friends log on. Everything works except I do not know how to get the "display name" from the contact that just…
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Adium - XMPP Account add stucks at Registering

I'm trying to add an XMPP localhost account in Adium and failed to do so. While adding it I'm not getting any error, it just showsRegistering... I've found a link of a similar question here and gone through some of the discussions, but unable to…
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Unable to connect to Ejabberd server

I have installed ejabberd version 17.06 on my mac. I could connect to it using Adium and Swift. But after a while after logging out of Adium and Swift I am unable to connect. The server seems to work fine as I am able to navigate the admin panel and…
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Unable to register XMPP user using Adium

I'm using Adium to adding XMPP (jabber) user to my localhost. But installed and when i try to add new user to localhost it stuck in Registering... How to register new user? Why it stuck on it? Here is
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Reopen closed tab in adium (hotkey )

How to reopen closed tab in Adium(version 1.5.10)? I tried arrow top + cmd + T, but it doesn't work, why? If i click with mouse in menu (File -> Reopen closed window), it works.
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