MSN - banned when trying to remove a contact

[Dam]

Hello,

Here's what I got when trying to remove someone from my MSN contact list:

12:09 <@dam> remove [snip]
12:09 -!- [snip] [censored@hotmail.com] has quit [Leaving...]
12:09 <@root> Buddy `censored@hotmail.com' (nick [snip]) removed from contact
              list
12:09 <@root> MSN - Error: MSN: Error reported by MSN server: Internal server
              error/Account banned
12:09 <@root> MSN - Signing off..
[everyone quits]
12:10 <@dam> account on
12:10 <@root> Trying to get all accounts connected...
12:10 <@root> MSN - Logging in: Connecting
12:10 <@root> ICQ - Logging in: Signon: [snip]
12:10 <@root> MSN - Logging in: Connected to server, waiting for reply
12:10 <@root> ICQ - Logging in: Connection established, cookie sent
12:10 <@root> MSN - Logging in: Transferring to other server
12:10 <@root> MSN - Logging in: Connected to server, waiting for reply
12:10 <@root> ICQ - Logged in
12:10 <@root> MSN - Error: MSN: Error reported by MSN server: Internal server
              error/Account banned
12:10 <@root> MSN - Signing off..

After lunch:

13:25 <@dam> account on 0
13:25 <@root> MSN - Logging in: Connecting
13:25 <@root> MSN - Logging in: Connected to server, waiting for reply
13:25 <@root> MSN - Logging in: Transferring to other server
13:25 <@root> MSN - Logging in: Connected to server, waiting for reply
13:25 <@root> MSN - Logging in: Authenticated, getting buddy list
13:25 <@root> MSN - Logged in
[everyone joins]

I don't know, it looks like the MSN servers didn't like a command sent by my "remove".

I am running bitlbee-1.0.3_3 in daemonized mode on FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE, and connect to it with irssi-0.8.11 I'm available for any further diagnosis and tests you'd want to run, of course.

[Dam]

Aw, the "cc" field is public? Care to blank it please? I don't fancy bots prodding it...

[wilmer]

Sure, done. I wish Trac had some way to keep the Cc hidden but allow people to add themselves. :-/

About the bug, I'm tempted to blame Microsoft, after all it's their server that disconnects you after throwing an error...

[Dam]

Haha

I am unsure myself yeah, I thought that bitlbee likely sent a command that MS now considers harmful and/or has deprecated.

It might be a random occurrence too, for all we know.

I wish you good luck if you're going to investigate the issue, and it'd prolly be safe to use a test account that doesn't mind being permabanned after 5-6 tries.

[wilmer]

All my MSN accounts are 100% disposable and just for testing purposes, so no problem. :-P

Can you reproduce this problem? Did the person actually disappear from your list? (The "account banned" thing comes up more often, but this doesn't have to be the case.)

[Dam]

Good point, that person wasn't even removed from my list it seems.

I'm not too keen on trying to reproduce the problem as my account isn't disposable :p

If you like I can get you a shell account and access to my bitlbee though, in case its setup-specific or whatnot.

[wilmer]

​http://code.bitlbee.org/wilmer/msnp13/

should hopefully fix this a little bit.

[wilmer]

Fixed by msnp13 branch, now merged.