Messages from Mac to Mac?

How do I establish contact with a fellow Mac user through Messages, Version 8.0 (4218)? Both of us use only Macs, not an iDevice. I have my correspondent's email address, but Messages will not send to that address. I have established contact through Messages to two users of the iOS, but not yet with any Mac users. Can it be done?

Hi Again,
Just to be clear it does not have to be an iCloud linked Apple ID.
It just has to be a valid Apple ID.
Messages is built on the iChat Engine.
iChat started life as an AIM client app that did text only.
In Version 2 it became AV capable.
iChat 3 brought us Jabber accounts
iChat 4 brought us four way Video chats and iChat Theatre.
iChat 6 added the text Only Yahoo option
Messages in Mountain Lion (version 7) changed the interface away from the Buddy List to the main windows and it's tabbed chats (you can elect to display the Buddy lists)
It also add the iMessages account.
Messages 8 loses iChat Theatre (RIP)
Google advertises you can add Facebook Buddies and Facebook do the reverse.
This is no big deal as you can add Jabber Buddies to any Jabber list in any Jabber capable app.
What these two service do seem to list is the ability to add AIM buddies to the lists.
AIM also say you can add Facebook and Google Buddies.
However it is less clear if this works away from a web Login to each of these servers.
With other Jabber servers you sometimes get access to what are called Transports or Gateways that enable the adding of buddies from different services to a Jabber Buddy List
A set of instructions can be found here (where it says Jabber app it means a Jabber specific one like Psi that can do the Servie Discovery for the transport).
Actually this one is with pics from Psi
I have based some of this based on the .org part of the ID that is behind the blanked out bit in your picture.
9:55 pm Saturday; December 7, 2013
 iMac 2.5Ghz 5i 2011 (Mavericks 10.9)
 G4/1GhzDual MDD (Leopard 10.5.8)
 MacBookPro 2Gb (Snow Leopard 10.6.8)
 Mac OS X (10.6.8),
 Couple of iPhones and an iPad

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dechamp wrote:
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