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

[Mark D. <ma...@ki...>]

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, 
> but I can't respond to his messages or see that he's online.
> 
> When I go invisible in gaim, and I initiate a conversation with him, 
> he is able to respond and doesn't see me as offline.
> 
> Is this expected behavior? I'm using 2.0.0beta6 as packaged in Ubuntu
> feisty.

No, that's not the expected behavior.  When someone is invisible, you should
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.

Do you get an error message when you try to IM him?

-Mark