Installation

$ sudo python setup.py install

Library dependency:

• python-xmpp (package name: python-xmpp on ubuntu and debian).

Configuration

Configuration filename: $HOME/.jablit_config.py

A sample one:

jid = "romeo@gmail.com/jablit"
password = "juliet"
server = "talk.google.com"
port = 5223
aliases = {"juliet@gmail.com": "juju"}

Another example

jid = "romeo@jabber.org/jablit"
password = "juliet"
server = "jabber.org"
port = 5222
aliases = {
   "juliet@gmail.com": "juju",
   "gmail@gmail.com": "pouet"
}

Commands

list

• who: prints your online contacts
• show: print bufferized messages and don't bufferize incoming messages
• hide: bufferize incoming messages, if you want to read them, you need to use the show or printbuffer command
• printbuffer: print bufferized messages
• status: see if you bufferize message or not
• quit: quit jablit
• jabberid: : send message to jabberid
• alias: : send message to alias

example

text after # are documentation comments

> who
 o juju gmail.3893EA
> hide
> juliet@gmail.com: hello !
> juju: hello ! # same as above using the alias
> status # juliet sends you 2 messages, you don't know it yet
hidden
> printbuffer
juju => hi !
juju => how are you ?
> status
hidden
> juju: fine ! and you ?
> show
juju => fine thanks !
> who
 * juju gmail.3893EA # "*" behind the alias means the user is away

Run jablit

If you didn't install jablit using the setup.py script:

$ python jablit/main.py

If you did:

$ jablit