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

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

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.
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> > 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.
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> > Is this expected behavior? I'm using 2.0.0beta6 as packaged in Ubuntu
> > feisty.
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> No, that's not the expected behavior.  When someone is invisible, you sho=
uld
> 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?

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.

> -Mark
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