[Pidgin] #48: Make SIP/SIMPLE work with Microsoft Live Communication Server

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#48: Make SIP/SIMPLE work with Microsoft Live Communication Server
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  Reporter:  MarkDoliner  |       Owner:  shulman      
      Type:  patch        |      Status:  new          
  Priority:  minor        |   Milestone:  2.4.0        
 Component:  SIMPLE       |     Version:  2.0          
Resolution:               |    Keywords:  MS LCS SIMPLE
   Pending:  0            |  
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Comment (by rmann):

 Hi. I've  been a long-time user of Adium on Mac OS X. I just started work
 at a new company that uses Microsoft Live Communication Server 2005, and
 have offered my services to the Adium X team to add support for it. Since
 Adium uses libpurple, the right place to put that support is here. I
 couldn't find a developer mailing list, but I found this bug that seems to
 be very closely related, if not exactly what I'm looking for.

 Now, I'm a pretty seasoned developer with a wide range of development
 experience (from small embedded circuit board designs to Mac OS X
 C++/Cocoa dev to Java J2E dev). But I don't know anything, really about
 the MS protocols in use. I really hate using MS' Messenger client, but
 right now, that's all that works. I'd really like to be able to connect to
 our corporate server with Adium.

 I'd like to contribute in any way I can, but I'll need at least some
 pointers to online resources describing how LCS/Office Communicator work.
 All I know is, I provide an email address (first.last at company.com), User
 ID (windowsdomain\userid), and a password, and the Mac OS X MS Messenger
 client figures out how to connect to the server, and even runs through an
 excruciatingly long series of alerts asking if I want to add various
 internal people to my list. But I very little idea (other than
 conceptually) what's going on under the hood.

 I figure there are two aspects. One is the automatic discovery of the
 server, the other is the authentication and (perhaps a third) the
 messaging. Am I right that this thread is a part of all this? Is the
 Office Comm based on the "regular" MSN Messenger protocols? I see that I
 have some SIP/SIMPLE UI in Adium, but it does not have the auto discovery,
 and I don't yet have the server's IP & port to try it.

 Anyway, is there anything I can do to contribute? Thanks!

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