Re: [OTR-users] Failure to initiate private conversation

2015-03-17 Thread Ian Goldberg
On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 04:55:13PM +0100, Paul Gouin wrote: > Never mind, problem solved. > > Just for testing, I set up a second Jabber account on my own machine, and > tried private messaging between both. That worked, and then a message > popped up on my colleague's screen asking him to authent

Re: [OTR-users] Failure to initiate private conversation

2015-03-17 Thread Lachezar Dobrev
I've had similar problems with colleagues and friends when using GMail/GTalk/Google+ XMPP. Some of the colleagues use Android devices. Those seem to connect once and never disconnect. I suspect that is some 'feature' of Google. These can be detected when the user is in 'Not Available' status on a

Re: [OTR-users] Failure to initiate private conversation

2015-03-17 Thread Paul Gouin
Never mind, problem solved. Just for testing, I set up a second Jabber account on my own machine, and tried private messaging between both. That worked, and then a message popped up on my colleague's screen asking him to authenticate my passed attempts. Not sure why or how things clicked into pla

Re: [OTR-users] Failure to initiate private conversation

2015-03-17 Thread Nathan of Guardian
On Tue, Mar 17, 2015, at 10:44 AM, Paul Gouin wrote: > ​Hi all, > > Thanks to all those who contribute to this project. > > I've been trying to set up pidgin-otr at work for communication with a > colleague on another site. My colleague runs ubuntu 14.04, I run xubuntu > (same version). We foll

Re: [OTR-users] Failure to initiate private conversation

2015-03-17 Thread Bits
Maybe related, maybe not, but for about the last week I haven't been able to get a new OTR conversation going in ICQ. I and the people I chat with have gotten these same symptoms: go to the OTR menu and select "Start private conversation" or "Refresh private conversation" and we just get the "Atte