How to send a normal message?

How do one send a normal message using Smack?

The only way I can find to send a message is using:

Chat chat = connection.getChatManager().createChat(to, this);

chat.sendMessage(message);

But i’‘m not intressted in participating in a chat-seesion, I only want to send a normal message. So I create a new Message with Message.Type=normal, but when I receive the message at the other end it’'s tagged type=CHAT.

Looking in Smack source I can see that when sending a message with the chatmanager it override the message type and set it to “chat”. Since there is no “connection.getMessageManager()”, how do I send a normal message??

Thanks!

use XMPPConnection.sendPacket()