Hi,

I am designing a social network in a country where almost every internet user has one or more MSN Live Messenger accounts. Since privatemsg seems a bit far from being ported to Drupal 6, I was thinking about implementing this for a while, as a substitute (I may use both later... I am thinking.)

I looked at the Wikipedia page and the documentation available at MSDN but I still have questions.
--I was wondering how an online MSN user sees a message sent to him through a "message me" page on my site. Does he see this as an anonymous message?
--Is it possible that he sees this as a message from the user X from mysite.com?
--It is possible that they carry on their conversations through this screen, right?
--Do you have an estimate timeframe to put out a stable release?

I hope it doesn't seem unfair to ask questions before even downloading this and testing it on my server, but I do think that more information on project-page regarding the "drupal-use" specifics would help everyone.

Thanks for this. I hope it proves useful for Drupal users.

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atuyo60 commented

Hi, sorry for the late reply. This module actually only simplifies the setting up of IM Control on a Drupal site, without the user having to copy and paste the HTML code on their own. The code essentially comes from Microsoft and you can always test it with your own account here: http://settings.messenger.live.com/applications/CreateHtml.aspx

While logged on to Windows Live Messenger, send yourself an anonymous message to see what its like. You might also like to know that when a user is offline, no conversation can be started. This makes it a little inconvenient if you are looking for a privatemsg replacement. I am also waiting for that module's release on Drupal 6 as that seems a better option to leave messages among users whether online or offline.

IM Control is newly released and according to Windows Live, it is currently in beta.

The recipient does not see this message as coming from your site; if you are looking for this, it is actually a feature of Windows Live Contacts but that application requires the user to have Windows Live Messenger installed unlike IM Control.

Conversations stay active as long as the window is open. If the button format is chosen, a pop-up of the messenger would show instead and you can move it around.

I have not included much information on this as it is simply an integration of the application that was created by Microsoft and is readily available to anyone with a messenger account for use in Facebook, blogs, etc.

Just for the record, I am actually using this on a production site, but I have not created an official release because there may still be bugs; although it has been working fine for me all along.

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deleuje commented
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Thanks for taking the time with this prompt reply!

I didn't know about Live Contacts. I will go check it out and I will also try this one on my sandbox to get a feeling of it.

I really wish privatemsg would be here sooner for D6. It is the main reason I can't switch now...