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Forward Teams chat between self and personA to another personB

Having a standard chat between myself and personA. In another standard chat with personB, inform B of that chat's contents. PersonB asks to be forwarded that chat, as if it were an email chain. Is ...
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In mIRC (internet relay chat) and IRcap, hide channels I'm joined to in status windows

I use mIRC and IRcap and I'm interested in not showing the channels I am joined to, to other users in their (mIRC/IRcap) status windows, is there any configuration I can use to accomplish this? Or ...
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How to save Discord chat history

How do I save the chat history from Discord? There are some messages with valuable information and I'd like to make a backup copy.
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Turn off Bing chat bot on Microsoft Edge

How do I turn off this annoying chat bot which opens up every time on Bing (on Microsoft Edge)?
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How to enable 3rd party cookies ONLY for Microsoft Teams

The company I work for wants us to begin using Microsoft Teams however after logging in the page goes into a redirect loop for about a minute, and then finally ends up on this error screen. I know ...
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How can I log in to DingTalk on multiple PCs at once? [closed]

Is it possible to log in to DingTalk on multiple PCs at once (i.e. on my desktop AND on my laptop)?
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Log Whatsapp conversations

We want to log everything that's being communicated with our clients. We log e-mails, phone calls and letters. With WhatsApp I tried different approaches already: Keep an app like Notisave running on ...
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Copy and preserve formatting when copy pasting from WhatsApp web to any editor

I have WhatsApp open in a browser using WhatsApp web. There are messages that I receive that have formatting included, say bolding of a few words, italics, underlines etc. Now I want to copy the ...
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Hide/Collapse animated gif images in Microsoft Teams?

When my coworkers post gifs in the team chat, I roll on the floor laughing. I then usually "collapse" the gif so that it doesn't continue repeating forever in the background while I'm trying ...
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Where are the WeChat chat logs stored?

I'd like to back up my WeChat chat logs, so I tried backing the chat logs up to my computer using the OS X WeChat application. It backed up successfully, but I can't find the chat logs anywhere. I ...
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Where is stored the backups of WeChat?

I have an Android device with some conversations of WeChat. I would like to do a backup of these conversations, so I am using the Windows 10 application of WeChat, it seems that it is the way to do ...
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Power Automate send direct message to a user that joins Microsoft Teams

Was trying to create a flow on Microsoft Automate Cloud flow to send a Direct Message to a user that joins Microsoft Teams. The current steps are: When a new team member is added Post message in a ...
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show embedded images in google chat in pidgin

I have the enhanced history plugin enabled and my logs are saved as html. When I first opened a conversation in google chat I was able to see embedded images but now the only thing it shows is a link ...
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Is there a way to export Slack conversation history?

A colleague has announced they are leaving the company in 2 weeks. A few weeks ago, another colleague left the company, and his Slack account immediately disappeared, and I could no longer see any of ...
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Why is the option to leave a chat missing in MS Teams?

I can see a "Leave Chat" option in other chats that I'm a part of but not this particular one. There originally were 3 persons in the chat. One left. And I no longer need to be in it. Is there a ...
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How to disable autoformatting in microsoft chat on sender's side? I type an underscore, teams turns it to italic

In Microsoft Teams chat, if I type a second underscore character in a chat line, Teams tries to turn the part of the line between the two underscore characters to italic and removes the underscores. ...
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How to group chat with up to 1000 people?

We are a newly formed housing society with around 400 houses and up to 800 members. We want to set up a group chat among us via any app which is cross platform (Windows, Android, iOS). We have tried: ...
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How to join an OFTC IRC channel using Element?

I want to join a channel on the OFTC IRC network and I used Hexchat for it. However, the UI was really bad and I wanted something more modern like Slack/Discord. Then I found Element which we can ...
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In Zoom chat, how do you return to lock on Everyone?

When you send a message Directly to a specific person, Zoom locks the person in so that after sending a message, the default target is that person, not Everyone. How do you unlock this mode so that ...
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Is there a way to render LaTEX/MathJax for Slack Chatting client (web or app)?

I have a workgroup that uses the Slack chatting app/website/destop version to communicate, and the desire to send usable mathematical expressions across to friends is something we'd like to do there. ...
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How to regularly secure/backup Telegram Chats?

since Telegram offers the option to delete complete chats for both sides - is there any way to secure your data? For example someone keeps harassing you through the Telegram chat, and later deletes ...
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Audio/Video Chat Solution [closed]

I've been using Skype pretty heavily for about 2-3 years now, and I've been steadily becoming frustrated with its performance; things that may first off be acceptable, but after encountering them time ...
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How can I get Skype to show all chat messages on the left?

I have a problem with the horizontal alignment of chat bubbles in Skype. I am using Skype on various computers. So far all Skype installations have shown messages aligned to the left (chat partners ...
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Permanently show hidden channels in Microsoft Teams

Moving from Slack to Microsoft Teams, one of the most annoying changes is the liberal use of "hidden" channels. I'm frequently having to click into the "3 hidden channels" submenu: ...
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Copy or print chat window text in Chrome

I keep encountering in increasing frequency these chat interfaces with disabled right-click, disabled marking (when I try to mark in order to copy, the mark usually doesn't stick) and even when I do ...
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who create chat room in lan messenger

In our company we are using lan messenger for communications. In this application there is a facility to create a chat room and add other users to it and then when we send a message, all users in this ...
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Can I keep myself joined to an irc channel even after exiting my client?

Is leaving a channel when exiting and joining when a new session starts considered proper? I am asking this because I have only used Discord as I do not usually need real-time communication. I have ...
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Prevent Intercom auto opening upon new messages

Intercom messenger opens automatically upon the arrival of new messages. Can we disable this with a configuration? enter image description here My biggest concern is when the automatic popup opens ...
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Unable to register channel (IRC) [closed]

I created and register my nickname yesterday using this guide - https://freenode.net/kb/answer/registration /nick YourNick /msg NickServ REGISTER YourPassword [email protected] then adding a ...
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How to restore deleted Telegram chat?

One of my chat partners has unfortunately cleared our entire (now almost a year long) conversation history in Telegram. It happened to contain really important info. Is it possible to restore it ...
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riot-im:Your Riot is misconfigured Invalid homeserver discovery response

I install riot-desktop version on my debian. sudo wget -O /usr/share/keyrings/riot-im-archive-keyring.gpg https://packages.riot.im/debian/riot-im-archive-keyring.gpg echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/...
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Voice chat distorted and cutting out while gaming

While playing a game and using voice chat (using either Discord or Teamspeak), the voice chat goes all robotic and keeps cutting out. I sound robotic to my friends, and my friends to me. When I close ...
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What other encrypted messaging platforms are there like Signal that provide encrypted form of communication without going through 3rd party servers? [closed]

I was wondering what other messenger applications that are like Signal that is fully encrypted for communications without. Is there one that doesn't involve a 3rd party but peer to peer chatting and ...
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SIP address for group chat in Skype for business

i searched a lot for the URI syntax of SIP address for group chat in Skype for business, i found answer only for a individual chat so i want to is there any syntax for group chat or chat with ...
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Useful XMPP chat notifications in Pidgin

I'm using XMPP chat rooms at work via Pidgin for team chat. I'm used to Slack, but we haven't fully switched over as of yet. Pidgin doesn't seem to be set up to allow useful persistent chat ...
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Checking for invitation on caller's machine

I never used talk command appeared in 4.2BSD. the command I am using: talk username and received: [Checking for invitation on caller's machine] lately found: No talk daemon on myserver although:...
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Talk command only shows "Checking for invitation on caller's machine"

The talk command on Yosemite doesn't work and the /etc/inetd.conf file is nowhere to be found. Why is this file no longer included with OS X and why doesn't talk work anymore? Running talk just says: ...
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MS Teams: Disable notification for General

In MS Teams, is it possible to disable receiving notifications in my Activity tab whenever someone mentions @General in a channel?
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Network configuration Chat lan Qualia

I have 2 network layers 192.168.1.4 and 192.168.2.4. How to configure network broadcast lan qualia to see both sides?
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How to avoid pasting emoticons in Qualia LAN Messenger

We are using Qualia's free, open source LAN Messenger. Sometimes when we paste source code back and forth to each other, the messenger finds certain character combinations that match emoticons, and ...
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ncat only works in certain scenarios

I tried using ncat (a “much-improved reimplementation of netcat”) to chat with a friend (and ultimately want to send a large file, but I know I can get that working once I get chat to work). We both ...
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How do I manage my Skype chat and call history?

Is there a way to selectively remove some of the historic messages and calls? I'm looking to keep the history of my business calls and chat messages, but clear the private ones.
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Video chat software for Ubuntu [closed]

Is there any video/audio chat program available for Ubuntu 9.4 apart from Skype ?
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Hosting Python chat server with ngrok

I built a simple chat server in Python and I realized that my ISP provides service with CGN. I want to expose my server, which works on the local network with no problems, to the Internet. Some ...
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Alternate client for Cisco Unified Personal Communicator protocol

At work we have an in-house chat system using CUPC. Does anyone else out there use this? There are a few things I do not like about this client: Where's the chat log? If I close the window, I have no ...
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Unable to find Skype chat history on Windows 10 [duplicate]

I'm using Skype (not for Business) on Windows 10. I want to export my chat logs to a text file. I read Where and how can i view skype logs (Chat and Voice history)? and other posts which say I should ...
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SfB Mute Individual Chats

I understand this question has been asked before, but I believe I may be using a separate version of Skype than the rest of those asking and being answered. I would like to mute new message alerts for ...
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IRC: /whois and other commands not working in channel

I'm a IRC first-timer using irrsi on Ubuntu with the following commands: /connect chat.freenode.net /join #worldchat The /whois username command doesn't work after I join a channel: it doesn't show ...
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Pidgin XMPP chat not decoding HTML.

Right now in Pidgin chat, we have a Github bot that posts when things get updated, including links. However, for whatever reason those messages come in as HTML instead of whatever pidgin uses. Is ...
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Internal LAN Based Chat/Messenger with LDAP/Active Directory Auth

Are there any options out there for an internal chat messenger that offers logging in with an AD account? I've found some options out there for internal chat messengers but none seem to support AD.