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-<chapter id="messaging">
-
-<chapterinfo>
-<authorgroup>
-<author>
-<firstname>Peter</firstname>
-<surname>Nuttall</surname>
-</author>
-
-<author>
-<firstname>Tom</firstname>
-<surname>Albers</surname>
-</author>
-
-</authorgroup>
-
-</chapterinfo>
-
-
-<title>Introduction to messaging</title>
-
-
-<para>The default way to send instant messages in &tde; is to use the <acronym>IM</acronym>
-client, &kopete;. This is a multi-protocol <acronym>IM</acronym> client, meaning that it
-handles several different protocols including <acronym>MSN</acronym>,
-Jabber, <acronym>AOL</acronym> and <acronym>IRC</acronym>. It also has
-useful features including support for &kaddressbook;, meta-contacts,
-encryption support and lots more.</para>
-
-<screenshot>
-<screeninfo>&kopete;, the &tde; IM client.</screeninfo>
-<mediaobject>
-<imageobject>
-<imagedata fileref="kopete.png" format="PNG"/> </imageobject>
-<textobject>
-<phrase>&kopete;, the &tde; IM client.</phrase>
-</textobject>
-<caption>
-<para>&kopete;, the &tde; IM client.</para>
-</caption>
-</mediaobject>
-</screenshot>
-
-<sect1 id="messaging-getting-started">
-<title>How to get started</title>
-
-<para>Start up &kopete; from the menu (it can normally be found in the
-Internet folder) When it starts up you should see a window with &kopete;
-at the top, menus and a tool bar below, and then your contacts below.
-You should add some accounts by clicking on the
-<guimenu>Settings</guimenu> menu and selecting the <guimenuitem>Configure
-Kopete</guimenuitem> option. By selecting the <guilabel>Accounts</guilabel>
-option you should see a list of your accounts (initially empty) and
-options to add new accounts and to edit or remove existing accounts.
-By clicking on the <guibutton>add new account</guibutton> button, you can
-add a new account using the wizard. When you have added an account, you can
-connect to this account by clicking on the relevant icon at the bottom of
-your main &kopete; window. This should make your contacts appear in the
-contacts window.</para>
-
-</sect1>
-
-<sect1 id="meta-contacts">
-<title>Meta-contacts</title>
-
-<para>Meta contacts are one of the features of &kopete; that make sense
-once you figure out what they are. Until you do, they annoy you. They are
-basically a way of taking a contact on one network (such as
-<acronym>MSN</acronym>) and linking it to another contact on a different
-network. This is useful for when people have accounts on different networks
-as you can chat to them without needing to know which account they are
-signed on to. This also lets you assign names to your meta-contacts that
-don't change when people change their names on their account, this is useful
-if you have contacts who insist upon setting their
-<acronym>MSN</acronym> nick to something like
-<quote>=EF=81=8A</quote>.</para>
-
-<para>You can do other useful things with meta-contacts like link them to
-entries in your address book. See <xref
-linkend="integrated-messaging"/></para>
-
-</sect1>
-
-<sect1 id="irc">
-<title><acronym>IRC</acronym></title>
-
-<para>Internet Relay Chat (<acronym>IRC</acronym>) has been around far longer than most <acronym>IM</acronym>
-systems, and is still widely used. It is mainly designed for group (many-to-many) communication in discussion forums called channels, but also allows one-to-one communication.</para>
-
-<para>The #kde channel is under Freenode, the <acronym>IRC</acronym> server, which provides an interactive environment for coordination and support of peer-directed projects, including -- mdash; and placing particular stress upon -- mdash; those relating to free software and open source projects, such as &tde;.</para>
-
-
-<para>While &kopete; has a <acronym>IRC</acronym> plugin, and handles both channels and nicks well,
-long time <acronym>IRC</acronym> users might prefer a client designed just
-for that role, which is what <application>Konversation</application> is. It supports features such
-as granting and taking op status, banning, easy nick changing, special
-channel support for passwords and invites, and other things that the power
-<acronym>IRC</acronym> users expect. It also is far better at handling
-large channels such as #debian. If you have used another
-power-<acronym>IRC</acronym> client before, you should have no trouble using
-<application>Konversation</application>.</para>
-
-
-</sect1>
-
-<sect1 id="integrated-messaging">
-<title>Linking email and messaging</title>
-
-<para>Did it happen to you? You received an email and the first thing
-you would like to do is to give a reaction on it, but not by
-email. So you switch to your instant messaging client and/or IRC
-client and look if that person is online via MSN, Jabber or IRC. Well
-&tde; 3.3 has made that a lot easier. A step-by-step manual:</para>
-
-<para>The requirements are &kmail;, &kaddressbook; and &kopete;
-(<application>Konversation</application> should do as well). Make sure &kmail; is configured and
-fully functional for email, and Kopete is well configured for IRC,
-Jabber and/or MSN and/or any other protocol.</para>
-
-<para>If an email comes in from a contact you know, the first thing
-you have to do is to add it to your address book. This can be achieved
-by right clicking the address and choosing the entry <guibutton>Add to Address
-Book</guibutton>.</para>
-
-<para>If you know the nickname which the user uses on, for example, IRC,
-go to &kopete;. Go to
-<menuchoice><guimenu>File</guimenu><guimenuitem>Add
-contact</guimenuitem> </menuchoice>. In the wizard, select the
-checkbox at the bottom called <guilabel>Use the TDE address book for
-this contact</guilabel> and choose <guibutton>Next</guibutton>. Select
-the right Address Book entry for that contact and press
-<guibutton>Next</guibutton>. Now you can set the display name and the
-group it belongs to for &kopete;. In the next screen select which
-protocol should be used if you have set up more then one protocol. You
-can select more than one protocol. After that, depending on the
-protocol, there will be some other questions, which you can answer as
-you like.</para>
-
-<para>Although we did specify to choose from the address book,
-&kopete; has not automatically linked your contact to the address
-book. So select the contact and choose
-<menuchoice><guimenu>Edit</guimenu><guimenuitem>Properties</guimenuitem>
-</menuchoice>. On the <guilabel>General</guilabel> tab check the box
-labeled <guilabel>Has address book entry</guilabel>. Press
-<guilabel>...</guilabel> and select the contact. Close these two
-windows.</para>
-
-<para>Now go to your addressbook, if you select the contact you will
-see that it shows an extra field <guilabel>Presence</guilabel>, followed by the current
-status. This status will automatically update as soon as the contact
-goes away, offline, online, and so on. Now go to &kmail;, select another email and return to the original email (in other words: reload
-the current email). You can now see behind the email address the
-current state of your contact.</para>
-
-<para>If you want to chat with this person, just right click the
-address in &kmail; and choose <guilabel>Chat With...</guilabel>. Your
-Instant Messenger will start a conversation with the contact.</para>
-
-<!-- Add links to "further reading" here -->
-<!--<itemizedlist>
-<title>Related Information</title>
-<listitem><para>to be written</para>
-</listitem>
-</itemizedlist>-->
-
-
-
-</sect1>
-
-</chapter>