Adium Setup

This guide will use Adium 1.5.4 for OSX 10.7.5 but other versions should be similar.

Prerequisites

Download and install Adium

First Time Start Up

• Launch Adium from your Launchpad or Application list
• Go to the File Menu and select Add Account and pick XMPP (XMPP is the protocol Jabber uses)

• An Edit Account window should open

• In the Edit Account window type in your Jabber ID. It will be your UMAMI user name with "@aie-guild.org" tacked on, such as, user123@aie-guild.org
• In the password field type in your UMAMI password
• Click the "OK" button

You're now ready to join a Conference room

Connecting to a Conference room

• Go to the File Menu and select Join a Group Chat (Adium calls Conference rooms Chat Rooms)

• The Join Chat window will appear

• In the Chat Room Name Type in the name of the conference you would like to join, such as Greenwall, or testing [change this later].
• If the Sever field is blank add: conference.aie-guild.org
• Type in your UMAMI password in the Password field
• Click the Join button

A conference room window should open, depending of time of day there may not be anybody in the room.

To change your handle

• Go to the Adium Menu and select Preferences

• In the Preferences window click on the Personal tab

• In the Personal tab you should see a Name field. You can update this field with your UMAMI username.