761986 - Support Windows Live Messenger (WLM/MSN) over XMPP

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Thunderbird :: Instant Messaging, enhancement)

Description

[Patrick Cloke [:clokep]]

Windows Live Messenger supports an XMPP gateway which would allow Thunderbird to fairly easily add Windows Live Messenger as another protocol type. Note that the gateway supports a custom OAuth 2.0 implementation. See [1] and [2].

I think for someone knows XMPP/our XMPP code this should only be a couple of days of work (with great benefit!).

[1] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/live/hh826554.aspx
[2] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/live/hh550849.aspx

Instantbird bug (for reference): https://bugzilla.instantbird.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1033

Comment 1

[Thomasy]

It has been implemented as an add-on

Additional Chat Protocols for Thunderbird 

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/additional-chat-protocols/?src=tb-16-read-more

Comment 2

[Benedikt Pfeifer]

(In reply to Thomasy from comment #1)
> It has been implemented as an add-on
> 
> Additional Chat Protocols for Thunderbird 
> 
> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/additional-chat-protocols/
> ?src=tb-16-read-more

No, this is using the libpurple's MSN implementation which isn't using XMPP.

Comment 3

[Thomasy]

(In reply to Benedikt P. [:Mic] from comment #2)
> (In reply to Thomasy from comment #1)
> > It has been implemented as an add-on
> > 
> > Additional Chat Protocols for Thunderbird 
> > 
> > https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/additional-chat-protocols/
> > ?src=tb-16-read-more
> 
> No, this is using the libpurple's MSN implementation which isn't using XMPP.

I think the key point is implementation of X-MESSENGER-OAUTH2 using SASL.

Comment 4

[febwin]

Empathy 3.6.0.3 on Ubuntu 12.10 use XMPP (5222/TCP) for Windows Live Messenger (WLM/MSN)

Comment 5

[Patrick Cloke [:clokep]]

Note that WLM is being disable on March 15th, 2013 (and the XMPP interface will be disabled in October, 2013). Supporting this probably isn't a great way forward, but I think we'd accept a patch implementing the necessary oauth mechanism.

Comment 6

[Florian Quèze [:florian]]

WONTFIX per comment 5.