Hi Daniel, Thanks for the quick response and clarifying my questions.
If I do decide to go the server route, I will be sure to reach out. Ralph On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 6:12 PM, Daniel Atallah <datal...@pidgin.im> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 11:40, Raphael Hickling <mrhickl...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hello, >> >> My name is Ralph Hickling and I am doing research on various IM tools >> to integrate into my site and I came across your site. Currently I am >> in the process of creating my website(which I am keeping in low >> profile) and will need a reliable company to assist with the messaging >> portion of my site. If you dont mind I would like to ask a few >> questions. But before I do, I want to give a small background about my >> website. My site is being programmed in ruby on rails and will be >> hosted on linode.com. My site will have a one to many relationship >> with my users, where users will interact with only one screen name per >> messaging tool(aim,msn,gchat). So each user will have unique responses >> and I rarely will send mass messages. Ok so here are my questions: >> >> 1. Is Pidgin the tool that can help me? >> 2. Is there a limit on how many characters can send/receive? >> 3. Is there a limit on how many friends I(my usernames) can have for >> each Messaging tool? >> 4. Do you work with blackberry messenger? >> 5. Can your API work with Ruby on Rails? >> 6. Does the SMS and/or IM tools have reserved words I should be aware of? >> >> I look forward into hearing back to you. > > > We are not a "Company" - Pidgin is a volunteer-run open source project. > > Pidgin is a installed software client, it cannot be used to drive your > website directly. > > Libpurple (the IM library that pidgin uses) can theoretically be used > on a server something like what you're talking about, but will require > a substantial amount of development work (you'll have to do that > yourself or find someone to do that for you). > > It isn't possible to communicate with Blackberry messenger with libpurple. > > The rest of your questions are protocol/implementation specific. > > -D > _______________________________________________ Support@pidgin.im mailing list Want to unsubscribe? Use this link: http://pidgin.im/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support