I'm running Pidgin 2.12.0 under Windows 7 with the AIM protocol. I have
several away status messages saved, that I rotate. Let's say I have one set as
"Relaxing." I logout and login (or just quit Pidgin and restart it), and
Pidgin says that's what my message is at the bottom of the buddy list, but my
actual status is just "Away." (I have myself included in my buddy list.)
Actually, my text status in my buddy list starts as Relaxing for a split
second, but changes to Away. I select Relaxing to "force the issue," but it
has no effect. I try setting it to the (built-in) Away, and now the text
status is consistent, but the icon indicating my status next to my name in the
buddy list is green, indicating I'm online. Now I can set it to Relaxing, and
everything is consistent.
I saw similar behavior with AOL's "legacy" AIM client for a few months before
they discontinued it. (This is what led to my switch to Pidgin, since the
"modern" AIM client doesn't support multiple saved away messages.) So perhaps
this is a deficiency in the AIM protocol and/or AOL's servers. But even if
that's the case, perhaps there's a way for Pidgin to work around it, and
preserve the user's selected away message and status across restarts, and such.
Cheers
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