Chat

Right now this page is just a place holder. I am trying to get an XMPP/Jabber server and web based chat client to work under WordPress.

The idea is that you will either be able to originate a chat session on the web or using a XMPP/Jabber chat app on a mobile phone or XMPP/Jabber based chat application on your computer or the shell servers.

Because so many configurations are path dependent, and because this is a trial and error situation, mostly errors, it was easier to put the paths into the menu so I can easily test. Please be patient. A general announcement will be made when it is working.

Basically, I’m trying to do for instant messaging as we have done for mail. Just as mail is accessible via the web, imap or pop-3 clients, and the shell servers, I’m trying to do something similar with instant messaging where it will be available via the web, XMPP/Jabber clients, and the shell servers.

Mail

Posted on May 16, 2025 by nanook

Mail system is down. Something very weird happened when I rebooted the server it is hosted on. It did not find the qemu img for the mail spool at the location specified in the XML file and the location was obviously wrong as the directory did not exist. Yet, I had rebooted the server many times before. I found a spool img but it is two weeks old. The current one seems to have just vanished from the disk. I have a backup that is from last Friday but that is as current as it gets. So before I turn mail up I am doing a thorough search for the spool image before I give up and restore from a six day old backup. This is a behavior I’ve never seen before. I am doing my best to recover. My automatic rsync also failed to run since the last backup so I can’t restore from that either.