The new Google Hangouts will not support XMPP

Post by shmerl » Sun, May 19, 2013, 8:39 AM UTC

jmillikin wrote: post #115

zmmmmm wrote: post #109

This is incredibly confusing. The sentences seem to alternate, between "Your end users will be affected, you must do something" and "Your end users will not be affected". Some of the sentences seem to imply this is isolated to AppEngine ("Your users may use any chat client that supports XMPP","the changes discussed above have no impact on non-Google XMPP clients") and others seem to imply that Hangouts is going to co…

Standard XMPP clients still work. If you use Pidgin or Adium or other similar clients, you can still send and receive messages to Google users regardless of whether they're using Hangouts. If you have an App Engine instance, and it uses the App Engine XMPP Service[1] to send messages to people, then that will stop working for users who switch to Hangouts. [1] https://developers.google.com/appengine/articles/using_xmp…

Post by X-Istence » Mon, May 20, 2013, 4:46 PM UTC

tonfa wrote: post #139

X-Istence wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, if you have a client connecting to Google's XMPP servers, your messages will not show up if the other user is only logged in on Hangouts. Hangouts ALSO can't send messages to an XMPP only user (even if Google is hosting the talk servers, as is the case for my Google Apps domains).

Did you try it? (that doesn't match what other people have explained to me)