# XMPP account

When registering on Outmo.de you automatically get an XMPP (aka Jabber) account on the same user ID.

So if your Fediverse ID is `mrfancypants@outmo.de` you can also be reached via the XMPP federation on the same JID.

Learn more about XMPP on [Joinjabber.org](https://joinjabber.org).

Our server runs the latest version of [Ejabberd](https://www.ejabberd.im/) and you can check the [health status here](https://health.f-hub.org/endpoints/chat_ejabberd-(xmpp)).

You can use the [F-hub.org XMPP invite page](https://xmpp.f-hub.org/#support@outmo.de?join) to share your contact and invite other XMPP users to chat rooms.

### Apps
We currently recommend the following mobile apps for XMPP:

- [Cheogram](https://cheogram.com/) for Android
- [Monal](https://monal-im.org/) for iOS

On desktop PCs use either [Gajim](https://gajim.org/) or [Dino](https://dino.im/).

#### Note for iOS/MacOS users:

If you are trying to use Monal with our XMPP service you will likely encounter a scary warning about MITM-prone PLAIN auth. This is due to the way our XMPP server needs to validate your password against the Lemmy database and sadly can not be changed.

But you can go to the advanced connection settings and enable the "Allow MITM-prone PLAIN auth..." setting and then it should work. In case that still fails, try removing the account from Monal completely and start again.

### Upcoming features

There is still some work to do to enable video calls on our Ejabberd XMPP server. Hopefully we will be able to enable it by the time Monal has full support for it as well.

We will also support using XMPP as a [UnifiedPush](https://unifiedpush.org/users/distributors/conversations/) distributor.

We will also try to integrate a XMPP web-client into our Akkoma frontend.

There is also a plan to enable some [Slidge](https://slidge.im/) gateways to other chat services like Telegram or Signal.