About Adium

Adium is the recommended jabber client for Macs. It is open source and supports OTR for end-to-end message encryption.

You can download Adium from adium.im

Configuring an account

(1) Adium menu > Preferences menu item > Account tab

(2) Click plus icon in bottom left, and select Jabber.

(3) In the Account tab, enter your riseup email address and password.

(4) In the Options tab:

(5) Click OK

Tor with Adium configuration

To configure Adium to use Tor, you need to modify your settings as follows:

First add a new Jabber account by going to File, then Add Account, then Jabber

Then fill out the account options with your riseup username and password…

Then click the Options tab and make sure it matches the following…

Then chose the Proxy tab and fill it out as follows…

Do not check “Create this new account on the server.” This is not supported. For a new account, visit user.riseup.net

(2) Under the Advanced tab:

(3) Click OK

Additionally, you may wish to enable OTR.