I'm probably not alone about getting request-popups where a complete (mostly russian) spam-message is inserted into the request.
I'd love to see a function that request-messages longer than a certain ammount of characters gets completley erased and just become a note in the log files. To set an ammount of characters to 50 would probably do the job quite nicley.
Also, I'd love to see the popup-requests to be a bit more silent so u wont have to stop everything you're doing just because of someone requesting your attention.
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Regarding the notifications being intrusive, this is currently how it is for me, not sure which set of options cause this (sorry, haven't configured in a long time). When new messages arrive, I get a sound notification and the tray icon (I use windows pidgin) starts blinking. Until I click on the tray icon the conversations window doesn't even show up so it is completely non-intrusive for me. One thing I wish is the ability to customize this behavior for email notifications. There is one email a/c that I use for receiving important email, but the pidgin's notifications are so easy to miss as I often don't even see the buddy list window. There should be a way to customize all the notification methods per account basis (you could then assign more intrusive notification method to important accounts).
Regarding ignoring the messages based on the length, you could try the new Message Blocker 2 plugin a try. You need to add a rule based on the length, something like this:
/.{250,}/
The above should simply make pidgin ignore any message that is greater or equal to 250 characters in length. You can play with the length or other rules based on words that exist in messages.
I am curious on why you can't block the sender though.
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I'm probably not alone about getting request-popups where a complete (mostly russian) spam-message is inserted into the request.
I'd love to see a function that request-messages longer than a certain ammount of characters gets completley erased and just become a note in the log files. To set an ammount of characters to 50 would probably do the job quite nicley.
Also, I'd love to see the popup-requests to be a bit more silent so u wont have to stop everything you're doing just because of someone requesting your attention.
Regarding the notifications being intrusive, this is currently how it is for me, not sure which set of options cause this (sorry, haven't configured in a long time). When new messages arrive, I get a sound notification and the tray icon (I use windows pidgin) starts blinking. Until I click on the tray icon the conversations window doesn't even show up so it is completely non-intrusive for me. One thing I wish is the ability to customize this behavior for email notifications. There is one email a/c that I use for receiving important email, but the pidgin's notifications are so easy to miss as I often don't even see the buddy list window. There should be a way to customize all the notification methods per account basis (you could then assign more intrusive notification method to important accounts).
Regarding ignoring the messages based on the length, you could try the new Message Blocker 2 plugin a try. You need to add a rule based on the length, something like this:
/.{250,}/
The above should simply make pidgin ignore any message that is greater or equal to 250 characters in length. You can play with the length or other rules based on words that exist in messages.
I am curious on why you can't block the sender though.
Here is the link, in case you don't know where to find it:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1731121&group_id=235&atid=390395