
Registering a Jabber (XMPP) account
Setting up an account via Adium
On most XMPP (previously known as "Jabber") servers, Adium can register your account with the server for you. Just set up your account as if you were already registered by following the steps described in Creating An Account, including your desired Jabber ID and password. When the account attempts to connect, Adium will notify you that the account is not yet registered and will offer to register it.
Username constraints
- Usernames are case-insensitive (e.g. "StPeter" is the same as "stpeter") and are limited to 1023 Characters.
- In addition, certain characters are not allowed in your username:
- @ ('at' sign)
- : (colon)
- ' (single quote)
- " (double quote)
- < (open angle bracket)
- > (close angle bracket)
- & (ampersand)
- space, carriage-return, line-feed, horizontal tab, and any other whitespace
- ASCII control characters
How to specify an XMPP server
Jabber IDs are in the form name@server.
The name adiumuser on jabber.org would be adiumuser@jabber.org.
adiumuser on jabber-fr.net would be adiumuser@jabber-fr.net.