[Gaim-devel] [RESOLVED] Re: troubles with invisible/ghost mode vs. gaim

[Michael R. H. <bu...@su...>]

The problem was the Offline messages plugin. It was getting confused by
the invisibilty of my buddy and storing the messages. When I disabled
the offline messages plugin, everything worked normally.

mike

On Sat, 2007-03-24 at 22:10 -0400, Michael R. Head wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-03-24 at 18:48 -0500, Mark Doliner wrote:
> > On Sun, 11 Mar 2007 16:39:20 -0400, Michael R. Head wrote
> > > My friend likes to use invisible/host mode in AIM (he's using the
> > > official AOL client), but when he does this, I can see his messages,=20
> > > but I can't respond to his messages or see that he's online.
> > >=20
> > > When I go invisible in gaim, and I initiate a conversation with him,=20
> > > he is able to respond and doesn't see me as offline.
> > >=20
> > > Is this expected behavior? I'm using 2.0.0beta6 as packaged in Ubuntu
> > > feisty.
> >=20
> > No, that's not the expected behavior.  When someone is invisible, you s=
hould
> > be able to IM them, but they will not show up as online.  When you are
> > invisible you should show up as offline to everyone.
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> > Do you get an error message when you try to IM him?
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> I'll have to try again, but I recall that it said he was offline and
> stored the message as a buddy pounce because when he IMed my second
> account (which opened a new tab), gaim immediately sent all my past
> messages to him in that tab.
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> > -Mark
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