F11: Exchanging messages within the house

[lanas]

Hi all,

  Is there a package in Fedora 11 that would allow the exchange of
messages within the members of a family, w/o having to go to the
internet and have these shipped using external email accounts ?  I'm
thinking of a nice and simple way of leaving messages for others such
as notes and such.  An extension on this would be to have a wiki I
guess.  I'm looking for something simple to setup.  Is there such a
thing ?  All computers in our house are using a version of Fedora
(mostly 11).

Thanks for any suggestions.

[Paul W. Frields]

On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 06:56:20PM -0400, lanas wrote:
>  Hi all,
>  
>    Is there a package in Fedora 11 that would allow the exchange of
>  messages within the members of a family, w/o having to go to the
>  internet and have these shipped using external email accounts ?  I'm
>  thinking of a nice and simple way of leaving messages for others such
>  as notes and such.  An extension on this would be to have a wiki I
>  guess.  I'm looking for something simple to setup.  Is there such a
>  thing ?  All computers in our house are using a version of Fedora
>  (mostly 11).
>  
>  Thanks for any suggestions. 
If you're using the Empathy client in Fedora 12 (or Fedora 11 for that
matter), the "People nearby" function from the telepathy-salut package
handles this nicely.

You'll need to make sure the firewalls on each machine permit port
5353 (mDNS, which you can enable from the simple, up-front list) and
TCP port 5289 (which you will need to enter in the custom list).

Then you can set each person up to run Empathy on startup to have
station-to-station IM within your home.  This is obviously limited to
people who are logged in, but often people in my home stay logged in
and just use Switch User when needed.

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[Tait Clarridge]

>  There is two chooses:
>  
>  1) Use pidgin with Bonjour protocol (a P2P IM protocol)
>  
>  
>  2)(Harder) Or setup a local irc/xmpp server.
>   
Take a look at setting up an Openfire installation (XMPP server... works
like any instant messaging client).. we use this at work between tech
teams, works cross platform and was very easy to setup.

http://www.igniterealtime.org/downloads/index.jsp#openfire

Good luck.

[Tim]

On Fri, 2009-10-30 at 18:56 -0400, lanas wrote:
>  Is there a package in Fedora 11 that would allow the exchange of
>  messages within the members of a family, w/o having to go to the
>  internet and have these shipped using external email accounts ?  
If you want to do it using e-mail, there's the option of using the
Dovecot package.  But if everybody's using the same computer, you can
just send mail to each other with the already installed sendmail.  You
just need to get each mail client to also grab local mail (by reading
the file for themselves in /var/mail/<their-user-name>), as well as
whatever mail they already get.

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[Bruno Wolff III]

On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 18:56:20 -0400,
  lanas <lanas(a)securenet.net&gt; wrote:
>  Hi all,
>  
>    Is there a package in Fedora 11 that would allow the exchange of
>  messages within the members of a family, w/o having to go to the
>  internet and have these shipped using external email accounts ?  I'm
>  thinking of a nice and simple way of leaving messages for others such
>  as notes and such.  An extension on this would be to have a wiki I
>  guess.  I'm looking for something simple to setup.  Is there such a
>  thing ?  All computers in our house are using a version of Fedora
>  (mostly 11).
>  
>  Thanks for any suggestions. 
Besides the other suggestions, a calendar server might be useful. If you
think that is something that might be of interest and aren't in a hurry,
you could look at what infrastructure eventually picks for the Fedora Project.

[Ed Greshko]

Athmane Madjoudj wrote:
>  On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 11:56 PM, lanas <lanas(a)securenet.net&gt;
> wrote:
>    
> > Hi all,
> >
> >  Is there a package in Fedora 11 that would allow the exchange of
> > messages within the members of a family, w/o having to go to the
> > internet and have these shipped using external email accounts ?  I'm
> > thinking of a nice and simple way of leaving messages for others such
> > as notes and such.  An extension on this would be to have a wiki I
> > guess.  I'm looking for something simple to setup.  Is there such a
> > thing ?  All computers in our house are using a version of Fedora
> > (mostly 11).
> >
> > Thanks for any suggestions.
> >
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> >     
>
>  There is two chooses:
>
>  1) Use pidgin with Bonjour protocol (a P2P IM protocol)
>
>
>  2)(Harder) Or setup a local irc/xmpp server.
>
>     
3rd choice....  e-mail?

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[Athmane Madjoudj]

On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 11:56 PM, lanas <lanas(a)securenet.net&gt; wrote:
>  Hi all,
>
>   Is there a package in Fedora 11 that would allow the exchange of
>  messages within the members of a family, w/o having to go to the
>  internet and have these shipped using external email accounts ?  I'm
>  thinking of a nice and simple way of leaving messages for others such
>  as notes and such.  An extension on this would be to have a wiki I
>  guess.  I'm looking for something simple to setup.  Is there such a
>  thing ?  All computers in our house are using a version of Fedora
>  (mostly 11).
>
>  Thanks for any suggestions.
>
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There is two chooses:

1) Use pidgin with Bonjour protocol (a P2P IM protocol)


2)(Harder) Or setup a local irc/xmpp server.






-- 
Athmane Madjoudj

[lanas]

On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:56:20 -0400,
lanas <lanas(a)securenet.net&gt; wrote :

>    Is there a package in Fedora 11 that would allow the exchange of
>  messages within the members of a family, w/o having to go to the
>  internet and have these shipped using external email accounts ?   
Thanks for all the suggestions !

Cheers.