Multiplatform, multiprotocol, plugin-based instant messenger with (GTK2 GUI || console UI)!

EKG2 is an OpenSource IM application for Unix systems (Linux, *BSD, SunOS, Solaris, MacOS, X, BeOS) available under the terms of GPL.

EKG2 is plugin-based, and because of this it can support many different protocols. It can also support different GUIs! Below is a list of available plugins.

Protocol plugins:

• Jabber - (XMPP, gtalk and Tlen.pl support),
• GG (gadu-gadu) - (using libgadu, the most popular polish IM protocol),
• IRC - (mostly IRCnet oriented),
• ICQ
• polchat
• rivchat

GUI plugins:

• GTK2 - under development,
• ncurses - primary ekg2 ui, console
• readline

Logging facility:

• logs - multi plugin that allows logging in irssi like format, xml, simple and raw,
• logsqlite - logging into a sqlite db,

Script languages bindings: Python, Perl

Other superb plugins:

• autoresponder - a simple captcha for IM
• sim (using openssl) & gpg - these plugins allow encryption within supported protocols,
• jogger - allows manipulation of JoggerBot via ekg2,
• mail - checking local maildir/mailbox for new messages,
• nntp - read usenet news
• rss - read RSS/Atom feeds
• sms - sms sending,

There are also a few other plugins in development.