Re: [gentoo-user] Kopete and offline messages

[Alan McKinnon]

Apparently, though unproven, at 18:56 on Sunday 10 October 2010, Dale did 
opine thusly:

> Yohan Pereira wrote:
> > On Sunday 10 October 2010 8:48:52 pm Dale wrote:
> >> [ebuild   R   ] kde-base/kopete-4.5.2  USE="addbookmarks autoreplace
> >> contactnotes groupwise handbook highlight history nowlistening pipes
> >> privacy ssl statistics texteffect translator urlpicpreview yahoo
> >> zeroconf (-aqua) -debug -gadu -jabber -jingle (-kdeenablefinal)
> >> (-kdeprefix) -latex -meanwhile -msn -oscar -otr -qq -skype -sms -testbed
> >> -v4l2 -webpresence -winpopup"
> >
> > [ebuild   R   ] kde-base/kopete-4.5.2  USE="addbookmarks autoreplace
> > contactnotes handbook highlight history jabber jingle nowlistening pipes
> > privacy ssl statistics texteffect translator urlpicpreview v4l2 yahoo
> > (-aqua) - debug -gadu -groupwise (-kdeenablefinal) (-kdeprefix) -latex
> > -meanwhile -msn - oscar -otr -qq -skype -sms -testbed -webpresence
> > -winpopup -zeroconf"
> >
> >> Is this Yahoo, Kopete or what?  Thanks.
> >
> > works perfectly here with invisible users on yahoo. maybe try pidgin or
> > something to rule out a fault with kopete.
>
> I installed pidgin and it works so it must be a Kopete thing.  Just
> wonder what that is.  I re-emerged Kopete just to see if that would help
> and it didn't.  I prefer Kopete because that is where all my past chats
> are saved.
>
> Anybody know what could cause this?  Could it be something Kopete built
> on that pidgin doesn't use?

Some IM servers just don't support delivering off-line messages.

Not Kopete's fault if it tells you it can't deliver a message coz the server 
won't accept it.

What service are you sending to?



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