Ejabberd

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Author:	Alexey Shchepin	Version:	1.1.1
License:	GNU	Release Date:	April 29, 2006
Website:	http://ejabberd.jabber.ru	Filesize:
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Supported platforms: Cross-platform
Categories: GNU project software, Development Tools

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The title of this article should be ejabberd. The initial letter is capitalized due to technical restrictions.

ejabberd is a free distributed fault-tolerant Jabber/XMPP server, written mainly in Erlang and distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). It runs under Windows NT and several Unix-like operating systems such as Mac OS X, Linux, FreeBSD, and NetBSD.

Alexey Shchepin started the project in 2002 and continues to maintain it. He says that the name ejabberd stands for Erlang JABBER Daemon. ejabberd is written in small letters only, which is common use in the unix-world. The goal of ejabberd is to create a stable and full-featured Jabber server.

1 Features
2 Project History
3 See also
4 External links

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Features

Besides clustering, ejabberd also has many other features like a web interface for admins, shared roster, PostgreSQL and ODBC support, support for virtual hosts, claimed XMPP-compliance, a translated interface (including English), LDAP authentication, login via SSL, SASL and STARTTLS. It also supports modules. Most of them provide simple things like for example saving offline messages, but in contrast there are also modules which make more advanced functionalities possible: an IRC-transport to connect with IRC channels, a MUC module, a module for HTTP Polling, a user database module which makes use of user's vCards (saving vCards in LDAP or an ODBC compatible database is possible with other modules), a module for Publish-Subscribe, and a module to gather statistics via Jabber.