- Ayttm
Infobox_Software
name = Ayttm
caption = Ayttm 0.2.1-1.1 main window/contacts list on Gnome
developer =Colin Leroy ,Andy S Maloney ,Philip Tellis ,Edward. L. Haletky ,Tahir Hashmi ,Torrey Searle Siddhesh Poyarekar
latest_release_version = 0.5.0-45
latest_release_date =4 june ,2008
operating_system =Cross-platform
genre =Instant messaging client
licence= GPL
website = [http://ayttm.sourceforge.net/ ayttm.sourceforge.net]Ayttm (pronounced "item" or "Ay-wai-tee-tee-em") is a multi-protocol
instant messaging client. It is the heir of the Everybuddy project.[http://ayttm.sourceforge.net/features.shtml Features]
Services
Ayttm primarily supports one to one and group chatting on MSN, Yahoo!, ICQ, AIM, Jabber and IRC. It also has support for sending rudimentary emails via
SMTP , which may be used to send SMS via email toSMS gateways . Ayttm also supportswebcams onYahoo! Messenger , and voice chatting over MSN usinggnomemeeting .Service summary:
*AOL Instant Messenger /ICQ
*Internet Relay Chat
*Jabber (Patch available to fixXMPP implementation bugs: necessary forGoogle Talk and maybe others)
*MSN Messenger (Voice/Video usingGnomemeeting <->Netmeeting )
*SMTP (SMS viaemail to SMS gateway)
*Workwizu
*Yahoo! Messenger (includingWebcam support)
* Zephyr[http://bluesmoon.blogspot.com/2004/09/fallback-messaging.html Fallback messaging]
When contacts belonging to the same person - but in different protocols - are grouped together, Attym can automatically continue the conversation using another protocol, when the original protocol connection fails. It is known as
fallback messaging to its developers.Autotranslation
When a contact is tied to a particular language, messages can be automatically translated using Babelfish. As with most electronic translators, it's accuracy can be doubtful.
Aycryption
Aycryption is a filter that facilitates encrypted chat using GPG keys. All outgoing text is encrypted using the remote contact's
public key , and incoming encrypted text is decrypted using the localprivate key .Plugins
Ayttm's
plugin architecture makes it possible for new protocol support to be added without modifying the core application. Plugins must be compiled against a version of the core and will only work with core versions that are binary compatibile with the core version that the plugin was built against.Five types of plugins are supported:
* Service plugins - for protocol support. eg: MSN.
* Filter plugins - to modify incoming and outgoing messages. eg: Auto translation, aycryption
* Importers - to import contacts and accounts from other messengers.
* Smileys - a [http://ayttm.sourceforge.net/smileys/ smiley pack]
* Utility - to add functionality. eg: Video capture, notes.History
Towards the end of
2002 , the everybuddy project started to stagnate and suffered from two major problems: Instability and a complicated set of preferences. The development team split into two to fix the problem. One group, led byMeredydd Luff started on a rewrite that was to be the long term solution. This resulted in theeb-lite project. The other group led byColin Leroy decided to fix all of the primary issues of everybuddy and work on features only after stabilising the core. The result was [http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/ayttm Ayttm] .Ayttm first made it into savannah's CVS repository on
December 21 ,2002 , and almost daily developer releases were made: [http://cvs.savannah.nongnu.org/viewcvs/*checkout*/ayttm/Attic/ChangeLog?rev=1.470&root=ayttm ChangeLog] . It was first [http://freshmeat.net/projects/ayttm/ announced] onFreshmeat onDecember 27 2002 .On
March 31 ,2003 , [http://www.nongnu.org/ayttm/ citing availability issues] with Savannah, the project was moved toSourceforge where it remains to date. [http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=77614&package_id=78592&release_id=150154 Version 0.2.2] of [http://sourceforge.net/projects/ayttm/ Ayttm] was released onApril 1 ,2003 .The latest release of Ayttm is [https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=77614&package_id=78592&release_id=604512 0.5.0-45] and was made on
June 4 ,2008 bySiddhesh Poyarekar .The name
"Yattm" was originally to be the name, but was misspelt by Colin Leroy when he registered the project on Savannah.
The CVS log on Savannah shows that the executable name was changed from yattm to ayttm on
January 16 ,2003 . No expansion for Ayttm was provided at this time.Several expansions of the name were attempted, and the one settled on was "Are You Talking To Me?". The question mark is part of the name. The name Ayttm is a
backronym and credit for coining this term goes toNatasha Sharma .Platforms
It runs on:
*
Linux
*FreeBSD ,NetBSD ,OpenBSD
*Microsoft Windows
*Mac OS X Several ports use the
GTK+ graphicalwidget toolkit .Copyright & Licence
The software is licensed under the terms of the
GNU General Public License and is Copyright the [http://ayttm.cvs.sourceforge.net/*checkout*/ayttm/ayttm/AUTHORS?revision=1.10 Ayttm team] .See also
*
List of Jabber clients
*Comparison of instant messaging clients External links
* The official website: http://ayttm.sourceforge.net/
Mentions by the press
* [http://www.instantmessagingplanet.com/public/article.php/2210871 IMPlanet's Linux IM Client Bonanza on Instant-messaging Planet]
* [http://www.expresscomputeronline.com/20030602/indcomp1.shtml Indian helps make seamless instant messaging possible in Express Computer]
* [http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8472/sam0306web/ Instant Messaging Clients on UnixReview]
* [http://www.framasoft.net/article2009.html Ayttm on Framasoft] (in French)
* [http://www.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/mar112004/snt7.asp Instant messaging with Linux in Deccan Herald]
* [http://linuxreviews.org/software/im/ Instant Messaging on linux reviews]
* [http://www.pctoday.com/Editorial/article.asp?article=articles/2004/t0206/21t06/21t06.asp&guid= Best Apps for Linux in PC Today]
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