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</a></div> <div id="caticon"> <img src="../gfx/AdiumIcon.png" alt="Adium Icon" height="32" width="32" border="0" /> </div> <div class="taskboxline"> <div class="taskboxheader"> <div class="taskboxtext"> <td><strong>Homepage:
</strong></td> <td> <a class="ext_link" href="http://www.icq.com/">http://www.icq.com/
</a></td> <td><strong>Type:
</strong></td> <td><strong>Identity:
</strong></td> <td>Universal Internet Number / Unified Identification Number / Unique Identification Number (UIN), e.g. 12345678
</td> <td><strong>Interoperability:
</strong></td> <td>AIM, MobileMe (formerly known as .Mac)
</td> <td><strong>Popularity:
</strong></td> <td>Germany, Eastern Europe
</td> <td><strong>Default server; port:
</strong></td> <td>login.icq.com (formerly login.oscar.aol.com, which no longer works for ICQ); 5190
</td> <div class="taskboxline"> <div class="taskboxheader"> <div class="taskboxtext"> <p>When it was released in 1996 by a company called Mirabilis, ICQ was the first real popular Instant Messaging service. In 1998, AOL bought Mirabilis and later made the ICQ protocol more similar to the AIM protocol.
</p> <p>In 2010, AOL sold ICQ to the proprietors of Mail.ru. The new owners changed the login server address to login.icq.com; 1.4.1 is the first version of Adium to use the new address by default, but older versions can be reconfigured by double-clicking on each ICQ account in the Preferences window and changing each account's Login Server in the Options tab.
</p> <div class="taskboxline"> <div class="taskboxheader"> <div class="taskboxtext"> <p>ICQ servers filter strings containing
<script, a tag in the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), which AIM and ICQ use to encode messages (so as to support fonts, colors, etc.).
</p> <p>HTML tags that you put into the inputline are “escaped” by Adium, so that the recipient's client will not attempt to use the HTML tag; it will simply display the text of the tag. However, it appears that the AIM/ICQ server drops messages containing even escaped HTML (but only that tag — other tags work fine).
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