Opened at 2010-09-18T12:32:37Z
Closed at 2010-10-02T06:02:59Z
#678 closed defect (fixed)
MSN users blocked after adding.
| Reported by: | anonymous | Owned by: | wilmer |
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| Priority: | major | Milestone: | |
| Component: | MSN | Version: | 1.2.8 |
| Keywords: | msnp13 | Cc: | |
| IRC client+version: | Client-independent | Operating System: | Linux |
| OS version/distro: | Ubuntu 10.04 |
Description
I'm using bitlbee 1.2.8. When using "add 0 <msn-mail@…>" the users that are added joins the &bitlbee channel BUT they viewed me as "Offline" for some reason. When login on to MSN Live Messenger I noticed the users (I have added 2) were blocked?!?. I do not how or why this happened so do anyone have any ideas?
ps. the help states "add 0 <email> <nickename>" but I would guess that nickname is optional. ds.
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comment:1 Changed at 2010-09-18T12:59:22Z by
comment:2 Changed at 2010-09-18T13:35:13Z by
~$ sudo dpkg --list | grep bitlbee ii bitlbee 1.2.8-1 An IRC to other chat networks gateway ii bitlbee-common 1:bzr-wilmer-msnp13-674-0 An IRC to other chat networks gateway (commo
That did not work (32bit). I just tested adding three more users on MSN and I had to login via msn live messenger to unblock them still. And one of the contact did not get the accept from me until I logged on to Live messenger (could be his adium client?!).
So, the problem persists.
comment:3 Changed at 2010-09-18T14:06:36Z by
You only installed the bitlbee-common package and still have the old 1.2.8 bitlbee. I'm surprised that that combination is even installable ... but it definitely won't give you the new code. :-)
Could you install bitlbee_... from that directory as well?
comment:4 Changed at 2010-09-18T14:46:38Z by
oh, my bad haha
ii bitlbee 1:bzr-wilmer-msnp13-696-0 An IRC to other chat networks gateway (defau ii bitlbee-common 1:bzr-wilmer-msnp13-696-0 An IRC to other chat networks gateway (commo
Now I can send data to a newly added user (he sees me as offline). When I log into msn live messenger the user is blocked... so I should not be able to send him any data in the first place. So I do not know what is going on now :)
But I noticed someting else. When someone add me to their msn list via msn live messenger I need to do a "add 0 <the-adding-users-msn-mail>" to get the contact to join &bitlbee , the person can see me in online mode and send data in live messenger but I can not see him until I also add his address in bitlbee too.
comment:5 Changed at 2010-09-30T06:37:04Z by
| Keywords: | msnp13 added |
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Hrmm, interesting behaviour. Microsoft definitely made contact list management more complicated. But at least it seems the blocking behaviour is gone in the msnp13 branch?
I don't have much time to completely fix this ATM but I guess we're back to acceptable now. I'll close this bug when I merge msnp13 into mainline.
comment:6 Changed at 2010-10-02T06:02:59Z by
| Resolution: | → fixed |
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| Status: | new → closed |
Fixed by msnp13 branch, now merged.
Interesting. I've indeed seen two reports similar to this, but yours is clearer. I haven't changed anything here but Microsoft is subtly breaking support for MSNP8 - the MSN Messenger protocol used by BitlBee so far.
I'm working on an MSNP15 implementation in a branch called (confusingly) msnp13. There are Debian packages available in http://code.bitlbee.org/debian/wilmer-msnp13/lucid/
If you could try if that fixes your problem, that'd be great. Because I suspect that this issue, like many other "MS breaking MSNP8" issues, only happens with a few people.