4 pidgin-sipe is a third-party plugin for the Pidgin multi-protocol instant
5 messenger. It implements the extended version of SIP/SIMPLE used by various
8 * Microsoft Office Communications Server (OCS 2007/2007 R2 and newer)
9 * Microsoft Live Communications Server (LCS 2003/2005)
12 With this plugin you should be able to replace your Microsoft Office
13 Communicator client with Pidgin.
19 The plugin has support for
21 * Instant Messaging (IM)
24 * Calendar integration with Exchange 2007/2010
25 * Contact details information - company, phones, web site, etc.
27 * Encrypted file transfer
28 * Call initiation through PBX
29 * Kerberos and NTLMv2 authentication, TLS support
30 * Translated to many languages
33 Advantages over Office Communicator products
34 ============================================
36 * Available on broader range of platforms: Linux, *BSD, Maemo, OSX,
37 commercial UNIX, Windows.
38 * Ability to simultaneously connect to several Office Communicator
39 accounts in addition to public IM network accounts like MSN, AOL,
40 Yahoo. For example one account is in vendor company and another is
42 * Keeps history of communications in environments without Outlook. For
43 example in companies where Lotus Notes is deployed as a default
44 groupware client instead of Outlook.
45 * Lotus Notes/Domino calendar integration. Unique to SIPE.
46 * Open development model, open source product. License is GPLv2+
52 The Pidgin project does not support third-party plugins! If you have problems
53 with this plugin then please check out the support forums:
55 http://sf.net/projects/sipe/forums/
57 Bugs should be reported here:
59 https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=949931&group_id=194563
65 SIPE has already been localized for several languages. You can help to
66 translate SIPE to your native language at Transifex:
68 http://transifex.net/projects/p/pidgin-sipe/c/mob-branch/
70 The service offers a convenient web editor and automatic submission to the
74 Installing from a distribution repository
75 =========================================
77 Many Open Source OS distributions have a ready-made package "pidgin-sipe".
78 Before trying to compile it from the source code yourself, you should try
79 to install this package with the standard installation method provided by
83 Do It Yourself I: compiling against "pidgin" package
84 ====================================================
86 If you already have installed the "pidgin" package from your distribution
87 repository and want compile pidgin-sipe from source code yourself, then you
88 need to install the necessary headers first. Depending on your distribution
89 you'll need to install one of the following packages
94 For the compilation you'll need to install a C compiler and some of the
103 Now you should be able to compile the source code with
105 ./configure --prefix=/usr
108 If you get errors then you are missing some required package. After
109 successful compilation you can install pidgin-sipe with:
113 If you get errors from configure or libtool about version conflicts then
114 you need to regenerate the autoconf files. You'll need these additional
120 Now you should be able to regenerate the files with
122 autoreconf --verbose --install --force
124 After that go back to the configure step above.
127 Do It Yourself II: compiling against self-compiled pidgin
128 =========================================================
130 If you have compiled pidgin from source code yourself then you'll have to
131 specify the correct installation path in configure. Usually pidgin is
132 installed in /usr/local so the following command should work
134 ./configure --prefix=/usr/local
136 The rest of the steps are the same as in the previous section.