Purple builds suggest using oauth for jabber, but it's not implemented

[dx]

The jabber oauth implementation only exists in the native bitlbee jabber module. When using libpurple, the user still gets instructions to do "account jabber set oauth on", only to find that the setting doesn't exist.

[dx]

I originally made this bug report based on what a user on #bitlbee said, but now i tested it and this doesn't happen. Whatever.

[dale@…]

I just ran into this on OSX.

brew install bitlbee --with-libotr --with-pidgin

oauth does not show up on the acc jabber set list.

[dx]

This ticket is about bitlbee show a message suggesting you to use oauth. We can't fix the fact that libpurple doesn't have oauth.

You can, however, rebuild with in a way that ensures that "--jabber=1" is passed to the ./configure command (and that the configure output shows jabber in the list of enabled protocols). That will get you the native jabber instead of the libpurple one.