Welcome to the SAPO Messenger project

SAPO Messenger for Mac is a free Jabber/XMPP client for the Mac OS X platform, developed at SAPO and released under a GNU GPL2 license.

Download now!

Version v1.0 was just released!, get it  here.

Next stop, v1.1 (list of open tickets).

You can follow the latest releases in two ways:

• download the  latest nightly build of SAPO Messenger Mac. It uses the Sparkle framework to keep you up-to-date;
• subscribe to the  nightly builds feed or select "Nightly Builds" in the "Auto-Update" menu that is available in the "General" pane of the application Preferences window.

The current builds have been stable for day-to-day use for some months now.

Features

Major features include:

• XMPP-compliant client, based on the robust  Psi core;
• clean Mac OS X experience;
• multi-contact support;
• WebKit-based chat windows;
• Standards-based file transfer;
• Uniform roster across multiple accounts, with filtering search of contacts;
• Message center to manage offline messages and headline-type messages;
• Support for MSN transport on any account;
• SMS integration (requires SAPO account);
•  Growl support;
•  Sparkle-based updates.

Look at the  timeline to see what we are working on.

Join us!

• Getting the source code and building
• Using git-svn

Guidelines

• Coding Guidelines
• Internationalization Guidelines

Technical Documentation Articles

• Application Architecture Overview
• Using the Bridge APIs
• Lilypad Bridge Start-up and Termination
• The GUI Layer
• Emoticon Support
• Advanced Preferences Keys