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You now own an account on a Jabber server and '''Kopete''' asks you for ''Step two: Account information''. '''Kopete''' adds your Jabber ID and your password into the required fields automatically. If you want '''Kopete''' to remember your password in order to not type it in every time you connect with your server, check <menuchoice>Remember password</menuchoice>.

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If you want to use your existing accounts of [http://www.google.com/support/chat/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=57557 Google Talk] or Facebook chat in '''Kopete''' (these are actually Jabber servers, too), use your GMail address or your facebook account data ([http://www.facebook.com/sitetour/chat.php explained here]) to connect to these servers.

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Optionally you can check <menuchoice>Exclude from connect all</menuchoice>. This advises '''Kopete''' not to go online when you go online with all of your '''Kopete''' accounts (as '''Kopete''' is a multimessenger with support for many other protocols like [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICQ ICQ] or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.NET_Messenger_Service MSN]). When you checked this, you will later have to go online explicitly for this one account every time you want to connect with your server.

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Your '''Kopete''' should now look like this: 


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[[File:Kopetetutorial_snap005_enterjid.png|thumb|center|400px|Account information window]]


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Click on the Tab <menuchoice>Connection</menuchoice> to check additional options. Especially selecting <menuchoice>Use protocol encryption</menuchoice> and the unselection of <menuchoice>Allow plain-text password authentification</menuchoice> should be chosen for basic security reasons.

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The <menuchoice>default server information</menuchoice> should be okay, if you are in a normal home network without special [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firewall_%28computing%29 firewall] configuration.

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The section ''Location Settings'' is another specialty of Jabber: You can set so-called "Resources" to identify where you chat from. For example if you log in to Jabber from your mobile phone and your notebook at the same time (yes, you can do that) the resource explains your contacts where you are. So you could call it "Notebook" or "Android", depending on which device you're installing Kopete. Remember that your resources can be seen from your chat partners (they will be added to the JID like this: <code>romeo@montague.net/Notebook</code>), so you might consider privacy issues while choosing your resource name.

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In our example, the <menuchoice>Resource</menuchoice> will be set to '''''Laptop'''''. The priority is mainly useful when you handle multiple devices and tells your partner's client which of your devices being online at the moment (e.g. your mobile phone or your laptop) to contact in this case. The highest priority number of your resources being online receives the message. 


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[[File:Kopetetutorial_snap006_connection.png|thumb|center|400px|Set the account configuration]]


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The next Tab, <menuchoice>File Transfer</menuchoice>, is normally not affected when setting up a Jabber account in a normal network.

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Finally, there are some privacy configurations in the tab <menuchoice>Privacy</menuchoice>, they are mostly self-explanatory. The option <menuchoice>Use old inline PGP format for signed and encrypted messages</menuchoice> (read here what [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy PGP] means) is not recommended, because there exists a method to do this with the built-in OTR, which will be explained [[Special:myLanguage/Kopete/Jabber/Useful_configuration_hints#OTR|later in this tutorial]].

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At this point you can click <menuchoice>Next</menuchoice> again and your account is configured now. You can choose an optional color for your account and when you feel ready to connect the very first time to your Jabber server, the checkbox <menuchoice>Connect now</menuchoice> has to be ticked. 


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[[File:Kopetetutorial_snap007_conf-ready.png|thumb|center|400px|Last step of configuration]]


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Now you can finish the configuration.

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Otherwise you can manually connect to the server by clicking <menuchoice>Status -> Online</menuchoice> in the '''Kopete''' main window or by right-clicking the '''Kopete''' symbol in your tray and selecting <menuchoice>Set status -> Online</menuchoice>. If you chose the option <menuchoice>Exclude from connect all</menuchoice> earlier, you will have to log in by right-clicking on the '''Kopete''' tray icon and selecting <menuchoice>yourJID@example.org -> Online</menuchoice>. 


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[[File:Kopetetutorial_snap008_goonline.png|thumb|center|x500px|Going online]]


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