This is a Jabber client, written in Perl, to very simply send a message via XMPP. More on the protocol at http://xmpp.org/ jabber.pl jacoby.david@gmail.com This is a message echo jacoby.david@gmail.com Yet another message | jabber.pl The jabber address of a client must be the first part of the message. Included is a file, gtalk_xmpp.cnf, which is roughly what you will need to have for a .xmpp.cnf file. The connection section is exactly what you will need to connect to Google Talk. The agent section has fields for username, password and resource. I trust that username and password are self-explanatory. Resource refers to which instance of a client is running, such as one user having an XMPP client open on several computers.