Group Chat

Idea shared by Nicolas Le Merle - 4/8/2015 at 12:51 PM

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Hi Guys,

I see there is no way to start a group chat with multiple users on my domain at the same time, have you ever considered this feature ?

Cheers,

Nic

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Bruce Barnes Replied

4/8/2015 at 1:47 PM

If you have SmarterMail 11, 12, or 13.X, you should be able to create an alias called, in our case, "Everyone", and enable XMPP Chat in the alias.

EDIT: 1559 CDT: Since Chat is available only in SmarterMail's Enterprise edition, the "everyone" chat alias shown below can only be created in Enterprise editions of SmarterMail.

You can also use that alias as an e-mail address, with everything sent to the "Everyone@yourdomainname.tld" going to all of your users.

If you mark it "internal only," then it can be accessed only via the webmail interface.

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Employee Replied

4/8/2015 at 2:14 PM

Employee Post

This is also available in SmarterMail 13.

Bruce Barnes Replied

4/8/2015 at 2:48 PM

I should have noted that as I'm on 13.3.5561.17888. Thanks for bringing that up. Will edit post to acknowledge.

Nicolas Le Merle Replied

4/9/2015 at 12:45 AM

Nice find Bruce! This however wont work if User1,User2, and User3 want to chat without User4 and User5 being involved. If there was an option to add individual users to a group chat that would be cool :)

While we at it, why not add a video call feature as well !! :)

Colin M Replied

10/28/2015 at 7:21 AM

Without group chat support the XMPP feature of SmarterMail is really half-baked and therefore not worth consideration as an alternative to a real chat system which is unfortunate as it would be nice to have fewer accounts/usernames to manage.

Employee Replied

11/6/2015 at 2:01 PM

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Nicolas, we have added the group chat functionality and video call to our features request list for further discussion by the dev. team.

Ali Dhoon Replied

11/21/2017 at 10:22 AM

Robert,

Even with the latest version (16.x) - I still don't see how to achieve what Nicolas above talked about ... this is the one feature keeping us from moving a number of users over from Skype for Business ... to be clear ...

user 1 & user 2 are chatting ... and they want to rope in user 3 and/or user 4 into the conversation ...

If there is a way to achieve this - please point me to the HOW-TO

Thank you.

echoDreamz Replied

12/8/2017 at 2:21 PM

I still dont think this is possible in SM 16. We've had quite a lot of requests for this, but I cannot figure it out. Aliases work, but what if you wanted to chat between 2/3+ people who are not in a predefined alias?

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