eM Client provides an integrated Instant Messaging module, through which you can perform all the essential tasks you can with stand alone chat clients. In this chapter we will walk you through the main functions of eM Client Instant Messaging.
To send a message to your IM contacts, click on their account in the contacts pane in the Sidebar, and in the Contact details pane click on the IM button.
This will open the chat window . As you can see, each conversation is tabbed in the chat window.
There are four quick access icons on the Chat window, they each are Emoticon, Profile, History and Send File.
(Smiley)Click on the Emoticon icon to insert an Emoticon, aka a smiley, to your text message. Because eM Client's IM system can handle multiple chat networks, the smileys are inserted in their text form.
Click on Profile button to view the personal info page of the IM contact you are chatting with.
Click on the History button to view your Chat History with that particular contact.
The Communications History window offers the standard utilities found on eM Client's main interface.
You can choose to Filter the messages with specific words or with one of the five filter option buttons to filter by incoming, outgoing, IM Chat, Skype and mail messages.
Click on Send File button to initiate a file transfer session. As soon as you click on the button, an explorer window will appear through which you can select the files you wish to transfer.
When your acquaintances add you to their IM clients be it AIM or ICQ or MSN, an authorization notice will be sent to you requesting your permission for them to contact you.
These Contact subscriptions are gathered and managed in eM Client's IM Contact Subscription system.
It can be accessed through the Main menu under Instant Messaging -> Contact Subscription Manager.
In the Contact Subscription Manager window will be listed the contacts that are requesting to add you to their contacts list.
You may view their user profiles with the Show Profile button situated on the top right corner of the window.
You may select requests from contacts individually or by the Select All, Deselect All buttons to either Authorize or Ignore.
Once authorized, your contacts will be able to see you and chat with you through their IM clients. If you choose to ignore their subscription request you are effectively preventing them to communicate with you through IM.
You can edit and publish your personal profile for your IM contacts on the Jabber network to see.
To do this, access the IM Profile editing page from the main menu, Instant Messaging -> Change my Profile. And select the Account for which you wish to update your profile. Optionally, you may also do this through the IM Menu when you click on the IM button in the lower right corner on the eM Client interface.
In the IM Profile window you can enter general information about yourself and details about your work, your address and even write a little paragraph about yourself in each of the four information tabs in the IM Profile window.
When you have finished editing/updating your profile, click Publish to post your changes to the network.
Another very useful tool in your arsenal to make the most out of eM Client is the contextual menu. As its names suggests, it offers access different tools, options, utilities depending on where it's evoked and what you are doing at the moment.
When you bring up the contextual menu in your contact list, that is if you right click on any part of the contact list panel on the Sidebar, you will see the following contextual menu.
While most of the options on the menu are rather self-explanatory, there is one option which perhaps deserves special mention and that is Privacy.
When you right click on one of your IM contacts, and select Privacy in the popup menu, you will be given the following five options you can apply to the selected contact.
Ignore User's Status Changes will block the notice that would usually be displayed every time when contact's online status changes.
Ignore Messages will simply block any incoming messages from this particular contact.
Become Invisible for the User will make you appear to be offline to this particular contact.
Ignore Everything (Ban User) effectively cuts off any communication with that contact.
Ignore Nothing restores a contact to the normal level interactivity.
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