Using Pidgin to connect to a google hosted chat for your domain
Google apps for chat allows us to chat to other google users using our own domain like tony@mydomain.com or you@yourdomain.com.
To do this, you have to register for google apps account using your domain name. Then login using using you@yourdomain.com as your user id in gtalk. Simple!
However, pidgin throws an error message if you try to create a new google talk account with you@yourdomain as the user id. Instead use the following settings,
Protocol: Google talk or XMPP
Username: your username without @yourdomain.com
Domain: yourdomain.com
Click on ‘Advanced‘ tab and enter ‘talk.google.com‘ in the Connect Server box. This does the trick!
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