[lan]

I'm concerned with network compatibility with AOL IM, Yahoo, and MSN Messengers. How is the security and feature set with one of these universal clients? Oh yeah, I use windows.

 

[pank2002]

I use gaim. Some use Trillion.

 

[450]

Yeah...Trillian works great!

 

[Jahn]

Quote:

Originally Posted by 450 Yeah...Trillian works great!

i dont use any IMs lol. but when i did, i used Trillian. was convenient to have all the diff IM programs funnel into just one.

 

[Dimitris]

I use Yahoo. It works ok. I used to use MSN but i think it sucks!

 

[Welly Wu]

I use GAIM and it supports all of the major IM protocols you mentioned, but it is open source and free software. You can install a simple plugin for RSA encryption for all of the IM protocols so you'll get secure communications plus it supports the SILC protocol that is built with its own strong encryption. It works for both Microsoft Windows and BSD and Linux.

 

[averydonovan]

Gaim is by far my favourite multi-system IM client. It supports most of the text chat features of ICQ, YIM, AIM, and MSN but falls down a bit in support for things like file transfer. Considering that it takes up less memory by itself than any of the individual clients and keeps a consistent UI, I find it quite worthwhile to give up a few features. Last time I tried Trillian a while back I did not like it at all. Goofy interface and a bit of a memory pig.

 

[450]

Hmm...I should go out and try GAIM.

Trillian DOES hog a lot of memory now that I think about it...

 

[Naga]

Trillian now, but ill probably try GAIM on my new partition

 

[lan]

I used trillian a while back and didn't like the interface. I will try GAIM out. Those seemed the most popular. I was just wondering if there was something else I havn't heard of.

 

[Welly Wu]

GAIM is it for right now. It supports up to 10 IM protocols and the open source, free software code will allow the developer or yours truly to make provisions for new IM protocols on the fly with no need to get separate multi-IM programs that cost more money. SILC + the GAIM plugin to enable RSA AES-TwoFish 256bit cipher/decipher key pairs alone make GAIM the most secure multi-IM program available for Windows, Linux, BSD, UNIX, and Macintosh OS X Tiger plus Qtopia (Compaq iPaq PDAs equipped with a RJ-45, Ethernet, or Wi-Fi 802.11b). Oh yeah, here it is: http://gaim.sourceforge.net/

 

[S_Dedalus]

Gaim works great for me, you just lose some of the features of the dedicated clients, but many of those that you lose are really really annoying.

 

[bpm2000]

If they'd develop Miranda a little more I'd use it in an instant. I did for a little while, and while the bare-bones part of it was what attracted me to it in the first place, it was a little TOO bare-bones at that time. I wonder if it is better now.

 

[misbank]

Hmm...i believe 123 flashchat is a nice choice.