Harsh J

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BitlBee and Google Apps

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Well, since I couldn’t fix a particular bug myself and the other developers think all is working well with Yahoo under KDE’s Kopete software, I had to switch over to the second best way to connect to IM networks – BitlBee via Konversation. This post is merely a note to self for adding Jabber accounts for GMail and Google Apps Mail accounts in BitlBee, once setup.

To add GMail is easy, using the Jabber protocol:

account add jabber username@gmail.com password

To add Google Apps Mail needs one more step:

account add jabber username@domain.tld password
account set 0/server talk.google.com
# You may want to replace '0' with your account number via 'account list'

account on and have fun with your now-more-powerful IRC Client.

Written by Harsh

February 9th, 2010 at 10:53 am

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3 Responses to 'BitlBee and Google Apps'

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  1. Thanks a lot. This was helpful. However, when I came to do this, the syntax had subsequently changed and so the set command should now be:

    account 0 set server talk.google.com

    James

    9 Aug 11 at 2:59 pm

  2. Thanks for the update James!

    Harsh

    11 Aug 11 at 11:30 am

  3. Thanks for the tip, worked great!

    Brian

    22 Oct 11 at 1:35 am

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