A solution for a corporate chat with bulk messaging?

Question

ubuntu

Before moving to Ubuntu, the company used Vypress Chat, now they need to find a similar solution, with support for mass mailing from any user, user cards with information about the internal phone, department and other information.
I set up a jabber server for testing, launched all possible clients, but none of them worked. Pidgin has a bulk message plugin, but it's either outdated or doesn't work. The option with creating a room does not suit the fact that when the application is restarted, the user does not automatically enter the room. I also do not like that the user name is displayed not from the card (Last Name, First Name) but the login of the form [email protected]
Am I missing something, how do I send a message to all users in a Jabber group? Or maybe there is another solution?

Answer 1

we have been using irc as an option for
more than 1.5 years. everyone is happy. there are groups, a personal. The main channel for announcements, the rest at will .. for departments ... chatting ... etc ...
for clients we use xchat: autoload with autoconnection to the selected server + autologin to the necessary rooms + autofold at startup
number of clients ~ 300
first minus if not online, it does not receive messages, although MB did not particularly understand and can be implemented. The second minus is that messages do not pop up over the rdp connection, although for a couple of months they got used to the blinking tray icon about the presence of a new message
in the connection to the server window information about employees - name, phone numbers, mail, etc. at will

Answer 2

Have you watched bopup ? There is everything you need, managing rights to send messages / visibility to other users, broadcast groups, storing message history and clients in Russian + Android support. You can also send messages from the server, in a scheduled mode at regular intervals or one-time.