[sipx-users] XMPP federation questions... clear up the mystery?

2012-08-02 Thread Robert B
I may be completely misunderstanding the capabilities of XMPP federation, so I wanted to post the question to the group here. I have a client who is using Google Apps for Business right now. They use Gmail, Gdocs, and of course Gtalk. In this scenario, is there any value (or capability) in

Re: [sipx-users] XMPP federation questions... clear up the mystery?

2012-08-02 Thread Tony Graziano
I think this is pretty easy to understand. If you turn on federation and have the proper firewall rules to allow it, the user can set their alternate IM address in the portal (john...@gmail.com or whatever) and have the mybuddy alerts sent to their google account via instant messages (you received

Re: [sipx-users] XMPP federation questions... clear up the mystery?

2012-08-02 Thread Robert B
Tony, Thanks for the information... the alternate IM address is in the Contact Information screen? I'll explore that, but it looks fraught with complexity... :O The pidgin route may work... I am a long time user of Pidgin (back when it was still call Gaim), but I can't find anything in the

Re: [sipx-users] XMPP federation questions... clear up the mystery?

2012-08-02 Thread Tony Graziano
On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 10:10 AM, Robert B d...@spudland.com wrote: Tony, Thanks for the information... the alternate IM address is in the Contact Information screen? I'll explore that, but it looks fraught with complexity... if federation is turned on, dns records are there publicly and

Re: [sipx-users] XMPP federation questions... clear up the mystery?

2012-08-02 Thread Douglas Hubler
On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 10:30 AM, Tony Graziano tgrazi...@myitdepartment.net wrote: On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 10:10 AM, Robert B d...@spudland.com wrote: Tony, Thanks for the information... the alternate IM address is in the Contact Information screen? I'll explore that, but it looks