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[Jamie Jackson]

On 8/22/07, Steve <p.witty at gmail.com> wrote:
> OK I spoke too soon.  I'm not currently running linux, and neither RVP nor
> SIPE have been compiled for Windows (as far as I can tell).  Also I don't
> know whether my office is using RVP or SIP instant messaging, though I think
> it's probably RVP (which I gather is older?).
>
> So I can't try these plugins unless someone can send me one compiled for
> Windows.  And please spare me the suggestions of switching to Linux...  It
> would be more trouble than it's worth at work.  But I do run UNIX at home...
>  I mean, OS X   :)
>
> All your help is greatly appreciated...
>
> -Steve
>
> On 8/21/07, Allan Clark <allanc at chickenandporn.com > wrote:
> > On 8/21/07, Nirbheek Chauhan < nirbheek.chauhan at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On 8/22/07, Steve <p.witty at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > > I was wondering: is there a work-around to setup Pidgin to work with
> > > > Exchange Instant Messenging (instead of the lame "Windows Messenger
> 5.1"
> > > > client)?
> > > >
> > > > If not, could this additional support possibly be added to the
> Roadmap?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > >
> > > > Steve
> > > >
> > > > [...]
> > >
> > > I believe there is a plugin for that called "rvp".
> > >
> > > See http://www.waider.ie/hacks/workshop/c/rvp/
> >
> > I got rvp working with some changes to gaim-2.0.0-pre but found that
> > RVP has long delays while waiting for some kind of query to resolve;
> > that caused Gaim itself to pause.  I don't believe a name change would
> > have improved that behavior.
> >
> > Someone within Moto could check the "compass" for "e6772c" and "gaim"
> > to find it.
> >
> > Allan
> >
>
>
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My post on this thread has some info on pidgin-sipe (a MS LCS "SIPE"
plugin for Pidgin) for Ubuntu, FWIW.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=526857