Uninformative message for XMMP login failure

2011-01-27 Thread David Balažic
my_n...@jabber.org/Home disconnected Invalid authzid This is what pidgin printed when I tried to login to my XMPP account. It turnes out, the account has expired. The message is very uninformative. First I suspected server problems (see the gtalk DNS SRV problem discussed here recently).

Re: Secure IM - in a nutshell

2011-01-27 Thread Brian Morrison
On Thu, 27 Jan 2011 00:57:37 -0700 ANDY siral...@gmail.com wrote: Aside from some great effort that casual/novice users are unlike to make, things such as SILC is the only option? OTR is another possibility, it offers plausible deniability. http://www.cypherpunks.ca/otr/ offers more

Disable Rollover Contact Details in Buddy list window

2011-01-27 Thread Mike Mackenna
Hello, I am using version 2.7.9 on Windows 7. There is a feature where if you mouse over a contact in the buddy list a window pops up and shows the contacts details. I would like to disable this feature. Does anyone know how I can go about accomplishing that? Here is a link to a screen shot

Help link

2011-01-27 Thread Francois . Emond
- Avis: Ce message est confidentiel et ne s'adresse qu'aux destinataires. Si vous le recevez par erreur, veuillez le supprimer et nous en aviser. - Hi, I'm working in a french environment. (Quebec Government) We use pidgin 2.7.9 (french) I must change the page where the Help menu (F1) point. I

Re: Secure IM - in a nutshell

2011-01-27 Thread Mark Doliner
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 11:57 PM, ANDY siral...@gmail.com wrote: So if I understand the help/faq correctly, in a nutshell - none of the major IMs (Yahoo, MSN, Facebook) use SSL security other than to authenticate the session at best? I think that's more accurate that not. I think logins for

Can't add MSN contact

2011-01-27 Thread Jeff Mills
Hi all, I'm having trouble adding a contact to MSN buddies in Pidgin 2.7.9. When I try to add, I get the error: Unable to add the buddy x...@smartdatainc.com because the username is invalid. Usernames must be valid email addresses. At home I was on version 2.7.7 and managed to add the buddy

Problem with Pidgin

2011-01-27 Thread Mitchell Chea
http://i.imgur.com/Bv8Zu.png You see with the first IM window, the top bar with the icon takes up way too much room. It happened randomly and I can't remember if I did anything to change it for that user. It open happens with the user 'Mike Chea.' The second window is an example of the default