Saturday, October 24, 2009

Can you use a gmail account to talk to people with other email accounts through an instanst messenger?

Yes, Gmail uses the same protocol as Jabber (for Linux / Macintosh) and XMPP (for Windows). So, you can activate your Gmail account from instant messengers like Pidgin (formerly Gaim) and Miranda, by slightly modifying Jabber / XMPP. Here is what you need to modify:


http://www.google.com/support/talk/bin/a...
Can you use a gmail account to talk to people with other email accounts through an instanst messenger?
Yes. It's great!
Reply:yes, you can but you must sign up to http://passport.net to use your gmail account to IM
Reply:yes if he/she also have a gmail account, gmail has a built in instant messenger...





im not sure if you can chat with different email like yahoo, etc...
Reply:aron there's one important thing gmail has that others don't have

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