Feature Requests item #1591885, was opened at 2006-11-07 04:48
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Category: irc
Group: None
>Status: Closed
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Philip Craig (philipcraig)
Assigned to: Ethan Blanton (eblanton)
Summary: Allow reconnect to be switched off for irc

Initial Comment:
In IRC, I do not want automatic reconnect. In the 2.0.0
release, the reconnect behaviour is hard-wired. Can you
please make it a preference, either for irc or across
all protocols?

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Comment By: Luke Schierer (lschiere)
Date: 2007-04-09 21:15

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As we are closing this tracker, please submit any feature request that is
still valid to http://developer.pidgin.im.  Thanks. 

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Comment By: Philip Craig (philipcraig)
Date: 2006-11-15 15:17

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In particlar the line "Collided wtih new user" comes from dircproxy's
source file irc_client.c when it disconnects an existing client in order to
allow a new incoming connection, which is what is going on.

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Comment By: Philip Craig (philipcraig)
Date: 2006-11-15 15:04

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Possibly it does. I can't see anything in GAIM itself, but in the MIRC
status window I see:

Closing Link: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Collided with new user)
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Comment By: Richard Laager (rlaager)
Date: 2006-11-10 10:12

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Does dircproxy give any kind of notice when this happens? If
so, I'd be willing to put code in the IRC Helper plugin to
deal with this.

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Comment By: Philip Craig (philipcraig)
Date: 2006-11-10 06:15

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I do not want IRC to reconnect. It's NOT that I want to get
a choice of what autoconnects at startup. I really really
don't want IRC to reconnect.

The reason is analogous to why for e.g. yahoo and MSN,
people do not want the services to reconnect if they have
signed in from another location.

This is exactly what is happening to me with IRC -- I
connect via dircproxy service which keeps my IRC session
forever. I connect to the dircproxy session from different
locations/computers etc. But now, if I connect with GAIM,
then when I connect to the dircproxy from elsewhere, GAIM
goes and reconnects me, kicking me out from elsewhere. This
keeps happening until I can kill the GAIM session.

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Comment By: Richard Laager (rlaager)
Date: 2006-11-09 23:51

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Sorry, my bad. This is why "(submitter)" would be handy. :)

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Comment By: Ethan Blanton (eblanton)
Date: 2006-11-09 23:48

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shedplant was not the original submitter.  We are yet to
hear why philipcraig does not want reconnection.

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Comment By: Richard Laager (rlaager)
Date: 2006-11-09 23:44

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So it's not that you don't want auto-reconnect, it's that
you don't want it signed in at startup.

Here's what you should try:
1. Click the status selector, click New.
2. Name this "All But IRC"
3. Set the base status to "Available"
4. Click the expander, click the checkbox next to your IRC
account.
5. Choose Offline as the IRC account's status.
6. Click OK, click Save.
7. Tools -> Preferences, click the Status/Idle tab
8. Uncheck "Use status from last exit at startup"
9. Choose "All But IRC" from the drop-down.

Now, when you start Gaim, it will use the "All But IRC"
status that you created. That status says, "Set everything
to available, except this IRC account which should be Offline."

If you later want to sign the IRC account on, click the
status selector and choose Available.

The saved status framework and the "Use...last...[status] at
startup" vs. use a given saved status preference allow for
extreme flexibility in what happens, far beyond that old
auto-login checkbox.

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Comment By: Shed (shedplant)
Date: 2006-11-09 19:02

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I sometimes use IRC for downloading anime. I then don't want
to sign into these channels when I start up, though I would
want to sign into MSN and YIM.

The best solution imo is to let the user decide what should
autologin (like before).

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Comment By: Richard Laager (rlaager)
Date: 2006-11-09 16:45

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Why don't you want IRC to reconnect automatically?

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Comment By: Shed (shedplant)
Date: 2006-11-09 13:21

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I would like to see automatic reconnection of all protocols,
but especially IRC, disabled or optional.

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