Can I send alert message to MSN messenger or Yahoo! messenger from servers?

Question

There is a server changing a batch to add up data on the date and time, but I want to send the end states (normal end or abnormal termination) of this batch to Yahoo! Messenger or one's ID of the MSN messenger as a message, but a page and the document which I am useful for are not found.

Can I send alert message to MSN messenger or Yahoo! messenger from servers?

Answer 1

If I got it right you want to receive notifications from your server application using msn or yahoo IM protocol. The only way to archieve this is to write an msn or yahoo bot. You can use libpurple for those purposes since it supports msn, yahoo, irc, gtalk and many other protocols. In my opinion this is an overkill.

Msn messanger and Yahoo! messanger show notifications about new e-mail messages so you could send e-mails from your server application instead of IM messages.

Answer 2

Check out pymsn. You should be able to call that lib from a script to send out alerts. Someone did something similar and posted the python code over here. Not sure if it still works. MSN has a habit of updating the MSNP protocol without notice.

Answer 3

There is also a .Net library called MSMP-Sharp that you can use.

Answer 4

We have professional .NET/COM/VCL library for MSN/Yahoo/ICQ/AIM/GTalk/Jabber. Please take a look at http://www.imcomponents.com/ if you like.