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.
You know the next step is going to be contextual text ads right next to your instant messages.
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