
A dialog box will open up saying "Opening Adium_x.y.z.dmg" it will go through several stages: verifying, checking volumes, mounting. Click on it and inside you should find the Adium.x.y.z.dmg file. In the menu bar at the bottom of your screen, next to the recycle bin icon, there will be an icon for your Downloads directory. In a default configuration the file will be in your Downloads folder inside your account's home directory. Open the Adium_x.y.z.dmg file by double clicking on it. The download may take a while to complete, as it is over 20MB in size. At the time of this writing, the current version is 1.5.7. The file that you get will be called Adium_x.y.z.dmg" where x.y.z is the version number. That page will say "Your download will start in 5 seconds." and will count down to 0. You will be taken to the Adium project's download page at. Underneath the duck it will say "Download Adium".

You will see the mascot for Adium, a green duck.
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See Step 6 to learn how to disable logging of encrypted chat sessions.īegin by opening your favorite web browser ( Safari, Firefox, Chrome, Tor Browser Bundle or the browser of your choice ) and loading up the Adium website: Adium keeps unencrypted logs of OTR chats by default. However, due to limitations of the OTR protocol, Adium does not support encryption during multi-user group chat. Adium is capable of having direct one-on-one chats as well as group chats. Off-the-Record Messaging, commonly referred to as OTR, is a cryptographic protocol that provides strong encryption for instant messaging conversations. This document is intended to help people quickly get started encrypting their Instant Messages on Mac OS X.Īdium is a free and open source instant messaging client for Mac OS X that supports multiple IM networks, including Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, Google Talk, AIM, ICQ and Jabber / XMPP.
