Hi, When I emerged the last kopete version (0.5), I found that the Jabber plugin can't use the SSL connections because it wasn't compiled in. In the previous version it just worked and yes my USE var is ok :-) Cheers.
wrote a bug report to the kopete devs, take a look at http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50172
well, the answer of the kopete-bug was libpsi does not support ssl, so kopete will not support ssl. there is nothing changed in the build process, so i will close this (i don't have any idea how to enable this), if you have an option or find any kopete-0.5 which supports ssl, please report.