Hello, and thanks for trying mcabber. For installation instructions, have a look at the INSTALL file. A configuration file is necessary to start mcabber. Its name is $HOME/.mcabber/mcabberrc (or $HOME/.mcabberrc). A sample configuration file, "mcabberrc.example", is provided in this directory. Copy it and modify it to fit your needs. You can use mcabber "-f" option to specify another configuration file. * FEATURES This is an overview of mcabber Jabber features: XEP-0012 - Last Activity XEP-0022 - Message Events XEP-0027 - Current Jabber OpenPGP Usage XEP-0030 - Service Discovery (partial) XEP-0045 - Multi-User Chat XEP-0048 - Bookmark Storage XEP-0049 - Private XML Storage XEP-0054 - vcard-temp (retrieval only) XEP-0085 - Chat State Notifications XEP-0090 - Entity Time XEP-0091 - Delayed Delivery XEP-0092 - Software Version XEP-0115 - Entity Capabilities support XEP-0145 - Annotations XEP-0146 - Remote Controlling Clients XEP-0199 - XMPP Ping XEP-0202 - Entity Time XEP-0203 - Delayed Delivery This software is under development, please give me some feedback (and some patches if you can!). Or just tell me you're using it... ;-) There is a Mercurial repository on mcabber's website and a Jabber conference room: . Mikael