Follow these steps to connect bromleyMail chat to Pidgin:

1. Open Pidgin.
2. Click the Accounts menu and click Manage Accounts.
3. Click Add.
4. In the Protocol field, select XMPP.
5. In the Username field, enter your bromleyMail username. For example, jsmith.
6. In the Domain field, enter your domain, such as example.com.
7. In the Resource field, enter a word that is unique for all of your other clients.
8. In the Password field, enter the password used to log in to bromleyMail.
9. Select the Remember password checkbox.
10. Click the Advanced tab.
11. In the Connection Security field, select Use encryption if available.
12. Select the Allow plain text auth over unencrypted streams checkbox.
13. Click Add.