After Mark Eichin's comment on my Jabber e-mail notification post, I realized I had to whip up a twill module for sending Jabber messages. Easily done; here's an example twill script:

extend_with twill_xmpp

jabber_login titus2@xmpp.us XXXXX
send_jabber_message titus@xmpp.us message

Since I know next to nothing about Jabber/XMPP, right now only jabber_login, jabber_logout, and send_jabber_message are implemented. If anyone has some good use cases, though, it might be interesting to see where to take this...

Oh, and e-mail me if you want the extension module. It's short and badly written, but it does work!

--titus

p.s. It does seem a mite silly to have to install pyxmpp, libxml2, dnspython, m2crypto, and twill in order to send XMPP messages. But hey, that's OSS, right?