Re: using gaim to communicate over ssh to a jabber server

Dale King wrote:

> You might be able to get it to work by adding host.smtl.co.uk as an alias
> to your loopback address (127.0.0.1) in /etc/hosts and specifying
> host.smtl.co.uk as your jabber server.  This way the local client and
> server think they are talking to the correct hostname.
I don't think that's a real solution.

IIRC setting the "connect server" under show more options to localhost 
(and the port right as well) should be all that's needed (but faceprint 
would know for sure) for it to work. The "server" would still be your 
jabber server's name.

--Tim



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