messaging server

[Ethan Blanton]

Jo-Erlend Schinstad spake unto us the following wisdom:
> I recommend OpenFire. It's an XMPP/Jabber server which is very easily
> setup, cross plattform and flexible. It can be connected to your LDAP
> server for centralized user management, for instance, and it has lots
> of plugins.

I believe some Pidgin developers do use OpenFire, but we really don't
recommend it.  It has some serious bugs (failure to validate XML
properly, various crashes), including some which have been a problem
for Pidgin in the past.  XMPP is indeed a good choice for an internal
messaging server, however, that much of this recommendation is good.

(I'm not going to say we actively *discommend* OpenFire, either, but I
 do want to clarify that this OpenFire recommendation is _not_ a
 recommendation of the Pidgin team.)

Ethan

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