Connect Google Talk to AIM, MSN, & Yahoo

[brian0618]

After I add my google talk account and go to services discovery. when I browse on Ursine.ca, all I see is Jabber IM Server.

[jcobreros]

what a mess. So i was trying to add my msn contacts to my gtalk account using psi and some jabber transports. I tried ursine.ca but it didnt show any useful transport, so I tried a couple of them and finally found aszlig.net which has a msn transport at msn.headcounter.org.
After filling my information on the PSI username and password screen i started getting subscription petition from all my msn contacts, except none of them worked.
So i erased msn.headcounter.org from my contacts, hoping that all the 250 petitions would go away. they didnt so I erased them manually.
Now everytime i connect to gtalk i get the 250 petitions even though the transport is not there anymore.
How am I supposed to unregister from that? how does it work in general?
please, any help would be appreciated.
thanks in advance

[waldito]

I've been using Gtalk with all my MSN contacts for almost two years now. I imported successfully my contacts using this tutorial.

Despite of the lack of file transfer between MSN with gtalk... I had to rename my msn contacts onto something more easy than user%hotmail.com@msn.jabbertransporter.com ... but everything was ok. Until one day.. my transporter (Ambrero.nl) just shuted down. I've tried registering with other jabber servers the same way I did it before, but no hope: I manage to register with PSI, and connect to both MSN and Gtalk networks. But Gtalk won't display my MSN contacts no more. Any ideas why? Did Google do anything lately? Does anyone of you have *still* MSN contacts on Gtalk? What am I doing wrong? I've followed every tutorial out there, tried with 5 or 6 jabber transporters, two different jabber programs. nada!

[neuron]

Anyone have a pre setup jabber server for this?

I really wanna use this, but I want my own jabber server (I dont trust random servers on the internet with my password), and I've been trying to get it working for hours with no luck whatsoever.

[Fanatic]

neuron, when you say you "want your own jabber server" do you mean you have a server connected to the internet and you're ready to install and maintain jabber services on it? Or do you mean you're looking for a jabber server that you can trust and are comfortable using?

When this tutorial was originally written, we used ursine.ca, but several years have passed and it appears that it's no longer a good source. I'm going to do some checking around and see if we can recommend two or three good alternatives.

[neuron]

I got my own server, in fact I got plenty.

And I was able to setup a jabber server that worked fine with msn, and I could register from gtalk + psi with service discovery (got that working with both jabberd and ejabberd), but I could never get the "agents/transports" to show up in psi.

I registered on an open jabber site and was able to use my msn transports just fine, no idea why gtalk wont comunicate properly with it.

(seems it can never get the "msn. requests presence in your buddy list" part).

[Joe Ball]

Hey neuron, welcome to BigBlueBall. This sounds like a great idea, and I've been interested in setting up my own Jabber server as well. Any updates on the progress?

[neuron]

Originally Posted by Joe Ball

Hey neuron, welcome to BigBlueBall. This sounds like a great idea, and I've been interested in setting up my own Jabber server as well. Any updates on the progress?

Openfire's main plugin cant do it for technical reasons, it doesn't allow remote use of it's transport. So I ended up with pymsnt, I've tried that in a combination with jabber,ejabberd and openfire. In all of them it worked from remote jabber servers, but I was unable to get my contacts to show up in gtalk.

I can register fine, but the agents/transports doesn't get updated. (it seems the "msn.hostname.com" request for presence updates doesn't get sent for some reason, it could be a dns issue.

[rickyrescue]

Has there been an update or another solution for this?
I really want to have my AIM contacts on my GTalk, and maybe Live. But mostly AIM.