4 SIPE is a third-party plugin for the Pidgin/Adium/Miranda/Telepathy
5 multi-protocol instant messaging clients/frameworks. It implements the
6 extended version of SIP/SIMPLE used by various products:
10 * Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS)
11 * Microsoft Lync Server
12 * Microsoft Office Communications Server (OCS 2007/2007 R2)
13 * Microsoft Live Communications Server (LCS 2003/2005)
15 With this plugin you should be able to replace your Microsoft Office
16 Communicator client with Pidgin/Adium/Miranda/Telepathy.
22 The plugin has support for
24 * Instant Messaging (IM)
25 * Multiparty chat (OCS 2005) or conference (OCS 2007+)
26 * Group chat (Lync 2010) or Persistent chat (Lync 2013) - [MS-XCCOSIP]
28 * Calendar integration with Exchange 2007+ (can be disabled)
29 * Contact details information - company, phones, photo, web site, etc.
30 * Unified Contact Store (Lync 2013) - [MS-OXWSCOS]
31 * Contact search - [MS-PRES] and [MS-DLX] methods supported
32 * Encrypted file transfer (OCS2007: send & receive, Lync: receive only)
34 * Call initiation through PBX
35 * NTLMv2, Kerberos & TLS-DSK authentication methods
36 * Single Sign-On (depends on OS and authentication method)
37 * Automatic SSL/TLS protection for SIP/HTTP connections
38 * Crypto implementation using NSS or OpenSSL
41 The plugin has backends for
43 * Pidgin/Finch (libpurple)
46 * Telepathy (under development)
49 Advantages over Office Communicator products
50 ============================================
52 * Available on broader range of platforms: Linux, *BSD, Maemo, OSX,
53 commercial UNIX, Windows.
54 * Ability to simultaneously connect to several Office Communicator
55 accounts in addition to public IM network accounts like MSN, AOL,
56 Yahoo. For example one account is in vendor company and another is
58 * Keeps history of communications in environments without Outlook. For
59 example in companies where Lotus Notes is deployed as a default
60 groupware client instead of Outlook.
61 * Lotus Notes/Domino calendar integration. Unique to SIPE.
62 * Open development model, open source product. License is GPLv2+
68 The Pidgin or Adium projects do not support third-party plugins! Please do
69 not ask questions about SIPE in their forums or report SIPE problems to their
72 If you set up your Office Communicator/Lync account with SIPE for the first
73 time then please make sure to read this page:
75 https://sourceforge.net/p/sipe/wiki/How%20to%20setup%20an%20account/
77 If you encounter problems then please make sure to check out the Frequently
80 https://sourceforge.net/p/sipe/wiki/faq/
82 If you still have problems then please check the support forum if another
83 user encountered the same problem and maybe solved it already:
85 http://sourceforge.net/p/sipe/discussion/
87 If you think that you have found a bug in SIPE then please report it to the
90 https://sourceforge.net/p/sipe/bugs/
92 The SIPE project kindly requests that you do not ignore the instructions that
93 appear at the head of the "Create Ticket" page. These instructions are there
94 for a reason and if you ignore them then you will only cause unnecessary work
95 for the project and yourself. Please do not report missing features as bugs.
97 New or missing features can be requested here:
99 https://sourceforge.net/p/sipe/feature-requests/
105 SIPE has already been localized for several languages. You can help to
106 translate SIPE to your native language at Transifex:
108 https://www.transifex.com/stefanb/pidgin-sipe/
110 The service offers a convenient web editor.
113 Installing from a distribution repository
114 =========================================
116 Many Open Source OS distributions have a ready-made package "pidgin-sipe".
117 Before trying to compile it from the source code yourself you should try
118 to install this package with the standard installation method provided by
121 Once you have SIPE installed and are connected to your account you can check
122 from the following Pidgin menu
124 Accounts -> <SIPE Account> -> About SIPE plugin...
126 which optional features have been enabled in your SIPE build.
129 Do It Yourself I: compiling against "pidgin" package
130 ====================================================
132 NOTE: for instructions how to setup a build environment on Windows to
133 compile the Windows Pidgin plugin, please read:
135 https://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/BuildingWinPidgin
137 NOTE: for instructions how to cross-compile the Windows Pidgin plugin on
140 contrib/mingw-cross-compile/README.txt
142 NOTE: for instructions how to compile the SIPEAdiumPlugin on Mac OS X,
145 src/adium/README.adium
148 If you already have installed the "pidgin" package from your distribution
149 repository and want compile SIPE from source code yourself, then you need to
150 install the necessary headers first. Depending on your distribution you'll
151 need to install one of the following packages
156 For the compilation you'll need to install a C compiler and some of the
165 libgmime-2.4-dev (optional)
166 libgmime-2.6-dev (optional)
172 gmime-devel (optional)
174 You have to choose between NSS or OpenSSL for the crypto backend. You'll
175 need one of the following packages
186 If you want to enable Kerberos authentication support then you'll need one
187 of the following packages
192 If you additionally want to disable the internal NTLM implementation and
193 authenticate with NTLM via GSSAPI then you'll need one of the following
198 If you want to enable Voice & Video features then you'll need some of the
199 following packages. You need to install the same version of the GStreamer
200 development packages which where used to compile Pidgin!
202 libnice-dev (>= 0.1.0)
204 or libgstreamer1.0-dev
205 for encryption support (at compile time):
206 libpurple-dev (>= 2.10.12)
207 libnice-dev (>= 0.1.13)
209 for encryption support (at run time):
211 gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad
213 libnice-devel (>= 0.1.0)
216 for encryption support (at compile time):
217 libpurple-devel (>= 2.10.12)
218 libnice-devel (>= 0.1.13)
220 for encryption support (at run time):
222 gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free
224 Now you should be able to compile the source code with
226 ./configure --prefix=/usr
229 If you get errors then you are missing some required package. After
230 successful compilation you can install SIPE with:
234 If you get errors from configure or libtool about version conflicts then
235 you need to regenerate the autoconf files. You'll need these additional
241 Now you should be able to regenerate the files with
243 autoreconf --verbose --install --force
245 After that go back to the configure step above.
248 Do It Yourself II: compiling against self-compiled pidgin
249 =========================================================
251 If you have compiled pidgin from source code yourself then you'll have to
252 specify the correct installation path in configure. Usually pidgin is
253 installed in /usr/local so the following command should work
255 ./configure --prefix=/usr/local
257 The rest of the steps are the same as in the previous section.