[ale] small XMPP server.

[Derek Atkins]

Solomon Peachy <pizza at shaftnet.org> writes:

> On Tue, Jan 03, 2017 at 06:51:51PM -0500, Boris Borisov wrote:
>> I'm tired of trying to use facebook or gmail for messaging my friends.
>
> In all seriousness, you probably won't have too many friends that are 
> willing to log into yet another account to just message you.
>
>> Since these companies removed support for XMPP you have to use different
>> messengers or the one provided by the company. I'm going to try to set
>> small XMPP server for myself and my friends and let them use it.
>
> I've been using jabberd for many years, almost since Google originally 
> federated GTalk.  My instance authenticates against PAM.  (I didn't 
> force use of s2s TLS so I can still communicate with GTalk folks.  No 
> sense in completely isolating myself from the world..)
>
> If I were starting over today, I'd use Prosody as it has a better 
> feature set and more active development.
>
> Oh, I highly recommend that you don't allow random folks to create 
> accounts on your instance.  Lots of bots out there attempting to 
> mass-create accounts for spam purposes.

I still get periodic spam through jabber, where someone uses dialback
from their server to send me spam.  Have no clue how to block it.

>  - Solomon

-derek

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