Google Instant Messaging

Now Google has instant messaging, using the Jabber protocol, for everyone with a gmail account. Your username is your gmail address (the whole thing, with @gmail.com), and the server is talk.gmail.com. This is great news.

Many have said that there is no SSL support. However, there is TLS support. In fact, I could not connect when I had TLS off, even on port 5222, so it seems that it is required. HOORAY.

I checked and ports 5222 (traditional Jabber cleartext port), 5223 (traditional Jabber encrypted port), and port 5224 are open on talk.jabber.org. I didn’t check if any of the other two do or don’t support cleartext.

My setup:
client: Adium
username: mygmailname@gmail.com
server: talk.google.com
port: 5222
TLS: on

UPDATE: I am told that with iChat, port 5223 and “Connect Using SSL” works.

UPDATE: Port 5222 requires TLS, port 5223 requires SSL, and nothing works on 5224.

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