Heard about Google Talk yet? Here is an instruction how to get it working in Gaim.

• Open the Accounts menu item in the Tools menu
• Click on Add
• Choose Jabber as protocol
• At ”Screen name”, enter your username that stands before your @gmail.com account (my is kanngard, since my Gmail account is [email protected])
• Enter gmail.com at ”Server”
• I think you can put anything in the ”Resource” field
• Enter your password
• Expand the ”Show more options” section
• Make sure the ”Use TLS if available” is checked
• Leave ”Force old SSL” and ”Allow plaintext auth over unencrypted streams” unchecked
• Port should be set to 5222
• Enter talk.google.com at ”Connect server”

Save this new account, and connect by checking the ”Online” checkbox.