I want to add instant-message support to a daemon process: that is, the daemon would have a table of instant message addresses for those who support the system, and when errors or unusual conditions occur, the daemon would notify us via IM (instead of just email as it now does).
Has anyone done this before? (Doubtless.) Which IM clients have you used successfully, and which have been abject failures for this sort of thing? Personally, I use AOLIM, Yahoo!, and ICQ because I have co-workers and friends on all three. I experimented with Net::ICQ and was underwhelmed (may have just been my inability to tinker it into a working state). I just finished repeating that experiment with AOLIM, and it worked a bit better. I'm about to move on to Yahoo.
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