I've been using ejabberd for a while, but it's painful. It has an extra daemon process used for mysterious Erlang stuff, it binds to more ports than it should, and it doesn't work without a lot of fiddling. I'd like a simple jabber server that uses plain text files to tell it the IP address to bind to and the valid user-names and to have a simple utility for generating passwords like the htpasswd program that comes with Apache. Getting Apache going is MUCH easier than getting ejabberd going, but Apache is a much more complex program. Back in the days of Debian/Lenny I investigated all the options and determined that ejabberd was best. I may have been wrong then, but even if I was right there is scope for other programs to have been improved. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/