Ayttm

Ayttm

Ayttm 0.2.1-1.1 main window/contacts list on Gnome
Developer(s)	Colin Leroy, Andy S. Maloney, Philip Tellis, Edward L. Haletky, Tahir Hashmi, Torrey Searle, Siddhesh Poyarekar
Stable release	0.6.3 / July 10, 2010; 13 years ago (2010-07-10)
Written in	Cross-platform
Type	Instant messaging client
Licence	GPL
Website	ayttm.sourceforge.net

Ayttm (pronounced "item" or "A-Y-T-T-M") is a multi-protocol instant messaging client. It is the heir of the EveryBuddy project.^[1][2]

Features

Services

Ayttm primarily supports one-to-one and group chatting on

(formerly GnomeMeeting).

Service summary:

• AIM/ICQ
  )
• IRC
• XMPP
• SMTP (SMS via email to SMS gateway)
• MSNP (Microsoft Messenger service, commonly known as MSN, .NET, or Live)
• YMSG (YIM with webcam
  support)

Fallback messaging

When contacts belonging to the same person - but in different protocols - are grouped together, Ayttm can automatically continue the conversation using another protocol, when the original protocol connection fails. It is known as fallback messaging to its developers.

Autotranslation

When a contact is tied to a particular language, messages can be automatically translated using Babelfish. As with most electronic translators, its accuracy can be dubious.

Aycryption

Aycryption is a filter that facilitates

.

Plugins

Ayttm's

with the core version that the plugin was built against.

Five types of plugins are supported:

• Service plugins - for protocol support. e.g.: MSN.
• Filter plugins - to modify incoming and outgoing messages. e.g.: Auto translation, aycryption
• Importers - to import contacts and accounts from other messengers.
• Smileys - a smiley pack
• Utility - to add functionality. e.g.: Video capture, notes.

History

Towards the end of 2002, the everybuddy project started to stagnate and suffered from two major problems: Instability and a complicated set of preferences. The development team split into two to fix the problem. One group, led by Meredydd Luff started on a rewrite that was to be the long-term solution. This resulted in the eb-lite project. The other group led by Colin Leroy decided to fix all of the primary issues of everybuddy and work on features only after stabilising the core. The result was Ayttm.^[3]

Ayttm first made it into

on December 27, 2002.

On March 31, 2003, citing availability issues with Savannah, the project was moved to SourceForge where it remains to date.^[5] Version 0.2.2 of Ayttm was released on April 1, 2003.^[6]

The latest release of Ayttm is 0.6.3 and was made on July 10, 2010.^[7]

The name

"Yattm" was originally to be the name, but was misspelt by Colin Leroy when he registered the project on Savannah. The CVS log on Savannah shows that the executable name was changed from "yattm" to "ayttm" on January 16, 2003. No expansion for Ayttm was provided at this time. Several expansions of the name were attempted, and the one settled on was "Are You Talking To Me?". The question mark is part of the name. The name Ayttm is a backronym and credit for coining this term goes to Natasha Sharma.

Platforms

It runs on:

• Linux
• FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD
• Microsoft Windows
• Mac OS X

Several ports use the

.

Copyright & Licence

The software is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License and is Copyright the Ayttm team.

See also

• List of XMPP client software
• Comparison of instant messaging clients

References

General references

External links

• Ayttm on SourceForge
• "Ayttm". Freecode.