3.3 Private messages

You can open a private chat with a participant in a chat room with M-x jabber-muc-private (or by using the MUC menu). This creates a buffer with the name *-jabber-muc-priv-group-nickname-* (customizable by jabber-muc-private-buffer-format), which behaves mostly like an ordinary chat buffer. This buffer will also be created if someone sends a private message to you.

Private MUC messages use the same alerts as normal chat messages. See Message alerts.