Creating a Jabber account

On most Jabber servers, Adium is able to register your account for you.

Set up your Jabber information within Adium as described in CreatingAnAccount, entering your desired Jabber ID and password. When the account attempts to connect, Adium will notify you that the account is not yet registered, and will offer to register it.

Specifying the Jabber server

Jabber IDs are in the form name@server.
The name adiumuser on jabber.org would be adiumuser@jabber.org.
adiumuser on jabber-fr.net would be adiumuser@jabber-fr.net.

Username constraints

Adapted from the Jabber User Guide:

Usernames are case-insensitive, so "StPeter" is the same as "stpeter". Also, Jabber usernames are limited to 1023 characters (not that you'll ever need a username that long, but just in case...). In addition, certain characters are not allowed in your username:

• @ ('at' sign)
• : (colon)
• ' (single quote)
• " (double quote)
• < (open angle bracket)
• > (close angle bracket)
• & (ampersand)
• space, carriage-return, line-feed, horizontal tab, and any other whitespace
• ASCII control characters