Pidgin is a great multi-protocol IM. But it lacks support for an Indian IM service RediffBol from rediff.com.
This Plugin enables support for rediffbol protocol.
http://rediffbol-prpl.sourceforge.net/
The latest release is 0.2.3, released on 21st August 2008. Download it now. Feel free to report bugs and/or feature requests on the project page.
So what works?
Sending and receiving chat messages, including offline messages.
Message formatting upto Italics and bold for received messages
Typing notifications.
Adding/Removing buddies and Authorizing/Denying addrequest.
Viewing and setting avatars (setting avatar is supported only through rediff’s webinterface). Avatar is RediffBol’s name for Buddy Icons.
Group management.
New mail count! This one feature will in itself make it useful for those who have migrated from Rediffmail, but still want to keep track of email that they receive.
What does not work [yet].
Font faces and font styles in received messages. (This was conciously not added for technical reasons).
Outgoing messages cannot be formatted.
Support for chat rooms not implemented yet.
