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<chapter id="messaging">
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<chapterinfo>
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<authorgroup>
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<author>
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<firstname>Peter</firstname>
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<surname>Nuttall</surname>
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</author>
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<author>
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<firstname>Tom</firstname>
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<surname>Albers</surname>
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</author>
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</authorgroup>
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</chapterinfo>
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<title>Introduction to messaging</title>
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<para>The default way to send instant messages in &tde; is to use the <acronym>IM</acronym>
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client, &kopete;. This is a multi-protocol <acronym>IM</acronym> client, meaning that it
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handles several different protocols including <acronym>MSN</acronym>,
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Jabber, <acronym>AOL</acronym> and <acronym>IRC</acronym>. It also has
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useful features including support for &kaddressbook;, meta-contacts,
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encryption support and lots more.</para>
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<screenshot>
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<screeninfo>&kopete;, the &tde; IM client.</screeninfo>
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<mediaobject>
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<imageobject>
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<imagedata fileref="kopete.png" format="PNG"/> </imageobject>
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<textobject>
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<phrase>&kopete;, the &tde; IM client.</phrase>
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</textobject>
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<caption>
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<para>&kopete;, the &tde; IM client.</para>
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</caption>
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</mediaobject>
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</screenshot>
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<sect1 id="messaging-getting-started">
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<title>How to get started</title>
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<para>Start up &kopete; from the menu (it can normally be found in the
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Internet folder) When it starts up you should see a window with &kopete;
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at the top, menus and a tool bar below, and then your contacts below.
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You should add some accounts by clicking on the
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<guimenu>Settings</guimenu> menu and selecting the <guimenuitem>Configure
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Kopete</guimenuitem> option. By selecting the <guilabel>Accounts</guilabel>
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option you should see a list of your accounts (initially empty) and
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options to add new accounts and to edit or remove existing accounts.
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By clicking on the <guibutton>add new account</guibutton> button, you can
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add a new account using the wizard. When you have added an account, you can
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connect to this account by clicking on the relevant icon at the bottom of
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your main &kopete; window. This should make your contacts appear in the
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contacts window.</para>
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</sect1>
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<sect1 id="meta-contacts">
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<title>Meta-contacts</title>
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<para>Meta contacts are one of the features of &kopete; that make sense
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once you figure out what they are. Until you do, they annoy you. They are
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basically a way of taking a contact on one network (such as
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<acronym>MSN</acronym>) and linking it to another contact on a different
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network. This is useful for when people have accounts on different networks
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as you can chat to them without needing to know which account they are
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signed on to. This also lets you assign names to your meta-contacts that
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don't change when people change their names on their account, this is useful
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if you have contacts who insist upon setting their
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<acronym>MSN</acronym> nick to something like
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<quote>=EF=81=8A</quote>.</para>
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<para>You can do other useful things with meta-contacts like link them to
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entries in your address book. See <xref
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linkend="integrated-messaging"/></para>
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</sect1>
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<sect1 id="irc">
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<title><acronym>IRC</acronym></title>
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<para>Internet Relay Chat (<acronym>IRC</acronym>) has been around far longer than most <acronym>IM</acronym>
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systems, and is still widely used. It is mainly designed for group (many-to-many) communication in discussion forums called channels, but also allows one-to-one communication.</para>
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<para>The #kde channel is under Freenode, the <acronym>IRC</acronym> server, which provides an interactive environment for coordination and support of peer-directed projects, including -- mdash; and placing particular stress upon -- mdash; those relating to free software and open source projects, such as &tde;.</para>
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<para>While &kopete; has a <acronym>IRC</acronym> plugin, and handles both channels and nicks well,
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long time <acronym>IRC</acronym> users might prefer a client designed just
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for that role, which is what <application>Konversation</application> is. It supports features such
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as granting and taking op status, banning, easy nick changing, special
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channel support for passwords and invites, and other things that the power
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<acronym>IRC</acronym> users expect. It also is far better at handling
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large channels such as #debian. If you have used another
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power-<acronym>IRC</acronym> client before, you should have no trouble using
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<application>Konversation</application>.</para>
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</sect1>
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<sect1 id="integrated-messaging">
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<title>Linking email and messaging</title>
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<para>Did it happen to you? You received an email and the first thing
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you would like to do is to give a reaction on it, but not by
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email. So you switch to your instant messaging client and/or IRC
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client and look if that person is online via MSN, Jabber or IRC. Well
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&tde; 3.3 has made that a lot easier. A step-by-step manual:</para>
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<para>The requirements are &kmail;, &kaddressbook; and &kopete;
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(<application>Konversation</application> should do as well). Make sure &kmail; is configured and
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fully functional for email, and Kopete is well configured for IRC,
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Jabber and/or MSN and/or any other protocol.</para>
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<para>If an email comes in from a contact you know, the first thing
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you have to do is to add it to your address book. This can be achieved
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by right clicking the address and choosing the entry <guibutton>Add to Address
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Book</guibutton>.</para>
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<para>If you know the nickname which the user uses on, for example, IRC,
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go to &kopete;. Go to
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<menuchoice><guimenu>File</guimenu><guimenuitem>Add
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contact</guimenuitem> </menuchoice>. In the wizard, select the
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checkbox at the bottom called <guilabel>Use the TDE address book for
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this contact</guilabel> and choose <guibutton>Next</guibutton>. Select
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the right Address Book entry for that contact and press
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<guibutton>Next</guibutton>. Now you can set the display name and the
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group it belongs to for &kopete;. In the next screen select which
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protocol should be used if you have set up more then one protocol. You
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can select more than one protocol. After that, depending on the
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protocol, there will be some other questions, which you can answer as
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you like.</para>
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<para>Although we did specify to choose from the address book,
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&kopete; has not automatically linked your contact to the address
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book. So select the contact and choose
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<menuchoice><guimenu>Edit</guimenu><guimenuitem>Properties</guimenuitem>
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</menuchoice>. On the <guilabel>General</guilabel> tab check the box
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labeled <guilabel>Has address book entry</guilabel>. Press
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<guilabel>...</guilabel> and select the contact. Close these two
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windows.</para>
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<para>Now go to your addressbook, if you select the contact you will
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see that it shows an extra field <guilabel>Presence</guilabel>, followed by the current
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status. This status will automatically update as soon as the contact
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goes away, offline, online, and so on. Now go to &kmail;, select another email and return to the original email (in other words: reload
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the current email). You can now see behind the email address the
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current state of your contact.</para>
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<para>If you want to chat with this person, just right click the
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address in &kmail; and choose <guilabel>Chat With...</guilabel>. Your
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Instant Messenger will start a conversation with the contact.</para>
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<title>Related Information</title>
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<listitem><para>to be written</para>
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</itemizedlist>-->
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</sect1>
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</chapter>
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