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

[Moritz Warning]

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On 10/22/2013 02:07 PM, Ian Goldberg wrote:
> 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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Yes, that would be awesome. :)

Anyway, doesn't otr-pidgin get the return value
of the protocols send function?
The designated return value of -E2BIG would
tell otr-pidgin to make the packets smaller.

- - mwarning
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