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</title> <link href="../css/topicpage.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" media="all" /> <div id="banner"> <a name="tabs" id="tabs"></a> <div id="navleft"><a class="navleftsty" href="../AdiumHelp.html">Adium Help
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</a></div> <div id="caticon"> <img src="../gfx/AdiumIcon.png" alt="Adium Icon" height="32" width="32" border="0" /> </div> <p>Adium supports file transfers over AIM, XMPP ("Jabber"), and Bonjour protocols.
</p> <div class="taskboxline"> <div class="taskboxheader"> <h3>Which protocols support file transfer?
</h3> <div class="taskboxtext"> <p>Sending and receiving files is currently supported on:
</p> <li>AIM (hard limit of 4 GB)
</li> <li>ICQ (hard limit of 4 GB)
</li> <li>SILC (not yet in Adium)
</li> <li>XMPP ("Jabber") when neither side is behind a NAT device.
</li> <div class="taskboxline"> <div class="taskboxheader"> <h3>Initiating a file transfer
</h3> <div class="taskboxtext"> <p>There are a variety of ways to initiate a file transfer with another user:
</p> <li>Click the
<strong>File Transfer icon
</strong> (Document with a green arrow icon), located in the message view's toolbar.
</li> <li>Select the destination user in the contact list then click
<strong>Contact → Send File...
</strong></li> <li>Simply drag and drop a file from the Finder onto the contact in your Contact List.
</li> <div class="taskboxline"> <div class="taskboxheader"> <h3>AIM/ICQ file transfer ports
</h3> <div class="taskboxtext"> <p>Users behind a router or a firewall may have better luck with AIM file transfer after forwarding ports
<strong>5190 - 5200
</strong> to their machine.
</p> <li>Mac OS X 10.5 users: Add Adium to the allowed programs list in the software firewall. Go to
<strong>System Preferences → Security → Firewall
</strong>. If
<strong>Allow all incoming connections
</strong> is not selected, choose
<strong>Set access for specific services and applications
</strong>, click the
<strong>+
</strong> button, and select
<strong>Adium
</strong> from your Applications folder.
</li> <div class="taskboxline"> <div class="taskboxheader"> <h3>Why does AIM/ICQ file transfer sometimes work better in iChat?
</h3> <div class="taskboxtext"> <li>When the sender is behind a firewall or router, libpurple's AIM file transfer implementation may fail. See the previous section for more information.
</li> <li>libpurple does not support transferring of entire folders yet. Such transfers will fail.
</li> <div class="taskboxline"> <div class="taskboxheader"> <h3>Improving Bonjour file transfer
</h3> <div class="taskboxtext"> <p>For Bonjour file transfer to work when sending it is required to allow port 5298 TCP and UDP in.
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