<h1>Creating accounts</h1>

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<p>To use Adium, you'll need an account on one or more of the IM services that it supports. Before proceeding, you should either have an existing name and password, or you need to sign up for an account on the service of your choice. Note that Adium will offer to <a href="Account-XMPP-RegisteringAccount.html">register your account on the XMPP ("Jabber") service</a> when setting up a XMPP ("Jabber") account.</p>

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<h3>Adding your account to Adium</h3>

<li><a class="ext_link" href="https://icq.com/join/">ICQ</a></li>

<li><a href="Account-XMPP-RegisteringAccount.html">XMPP ("Jabber")</a></li>

<li><a class="ext_link" href="http://www.livejournal.com/chat/">LiveJournal</a></li>

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<li>Paid Services

<li>Non-English Free Services

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<li><a class="ext_link" href="http://www.gadu-gadu.pl/">Gadu-Gadu</a> - Polish</li>

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<li>Corporate Services

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<h3>Third-party plugins for services</h3>

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<td><a href="http://sipe.sourceforge.net">Click</a></td>

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<h3>Status messages</h3>

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<p>AIM available messages are limited to approximately 60 characters by the AIM server. Messages longer than this will be truncated automatically.</p>

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<li>Available</li>

<li>Away</li>

<li>Invisible/Stealth

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<li>In versions prior to 1.0, there is no Invisible status in Adium by default. You have to create such a status by choosing either of the two “Custom…” menu items in the Status menu, and changing the custom status's state to Invisible. Remember to choose “Save Custom Status” if you want to keep the Invisible status around.</li>

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<li>Offline</li>

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<p>To enable mail checking</p>

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<h1>File transfer</h1>

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<h3>Which protocols support file transfer?</h3>

<li>AIM (hard limit of 4 GB)</li>

<li>ICQ (hard limit of 4 GB)</li>

<li>IRC</li>

<li>SILC (not yet in Adium)</li>

<li>XMPP ("Jabber") when neither side is behind a NAT device.</li>

<li>Bonjour</li>

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<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>

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<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>

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<h1>Blocking and unblocking contacts</h1>

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<p>Blocked contacts appear in your ContactList with this status icon:</p>

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<p>though some AdiumStatusIcons packs may have a different icon for blocked contacts.</p>

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<li>Supports: All privacy settings displayed by Adium.</li>

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<p><b>ICQ</b></p>

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<li>Supports: <strong>Block certain contacts</strong> except that they aren't really blocked and are still able to send you messages, they just can't see if you are online or not. So this privacy option resembles ICQ's &quot;invisible lists&quot;.</li>

<h3>Initiating/joining a group chat</h3>

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<p>Choose <b>File</b> → <b>Join Group</b> Chat and enter the details for the chat. You may invite contacts to join you in the chat immediately via the Join Group Chat window, and you may invite them later by:</p>

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<li>Selecting them in the contact list and choosing <b>Contact</b> → <b>Invite to Chat</b> and selecting the chat, or</li>

<li>Right-clicking (control-clicking) the contact or an open chat with the contact and choosing <b>Invite to Chat</b> and selecting the chat</li>

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<p>Type a message, then press Enter or Return. You can control whether Enter or Return inserts a new line instead of sending a message in the General Preferences. Option+Enter always inserts a new line. If the contact is online, the message will be sent immediately.</p>

<p>You can specify your <a href="Messaging-FontsAndColors.html">font or color</a> if you like.</p>

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<li><a href="Troubleshooting-ConnectionProblems.html">Connection problems</a></li>

<li><a href="Troubleshooting-SleepMode.html">Adium and Mac OS X sleep mode</a></li>

<li><a href="Troubleshooting-RecoveringLostPasswords.html">Recovering lost passwords</a></li>

<li><a href="Troubleshooting-PersistentPromptsForPasswords.html">Persistent prompts for passwords</a></li>

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<p>Occasionally, servers will report your login information as invalid when it isn't. If this is the case, it's likely a temporary issue which you will have to wait to correct itself.</p>

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<h3>6. Try another client</h3>

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<p>If the problem persists across different clients, then there is likely nothing we can do to solve the problem except wait for the server issues to be repaired; please do not open new tickets regarding these kinds of problems.</p>

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