Is it possible to send a single IM message to a group of people?

Openfire Openfire Support
1

Is it possible to send a single IM message to a group of people via the openfire XMPP server?

2

Yes, in the openfire admin console, click on the “Sessions” tab across the top, then down the left side of that page you will see a “Send Message” button under the TOOLS heading. Type your message there and hit “send message”. Easy as pie! If you are wanting to target just a specific group, then use the “Broadcast” feature from the spark client, and then you can send a message to just certain groups!

Scott

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Openfire supports XEP-0033 (“Extended Stanza Addressing”), which allows you to add multiple recipients for one stanza. You’d be able to do something like this:

<message to='multicast.jabber.org'>
   <addresses xmlns='http://jabber.org/protocol/address'>
       <address type='to' jid='hildjj@jabber.org/Work' desc='Joe Hildebrand'></address>
       <address type='cc' jid='jer@jabber.org/Home' desc='Jeremie Miller'></address>
   </addresses>
   <body>Hello, world!</body>
</message><pre></pre>

Have a look at the XEP for more details: http://www.xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0033.html

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And another option is to use the broadcast plugin.

Regards,

– Gato