[OTR-dev] Fwd: Re: pidgin-otr problems receiving packets

Ian Goldberg ian at cypherpunks.ca
Tue Oct 22 08:07:25 EDT 2013


On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 10:30:14PM +0200, Moritz Warning wrote:
> I discovered that you can put a file called otr.max_message_size (<protocol>\t<max_packet_size>\n)
> in the .purple directory. That did the trick. :D
> 
> Thought, this is far from satisfying. This is quite some hassle and
> users won't find this out easily without extensive search.
> I think I've got this issue before a few years ago using pidgin and some
> other protocol and never figured it out - and gave up.
> 
> Can something be done?

Apparently libpurple 3 will have an call in the prpl plugin API so that
the protocol plugin itself can announce its MMS to anyone who asks.
That will address this problem nicely, I think.

   - Ian



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