[OTR-users] Is there any way to prevent the "You attempted to send an unencrypted message" dialog?

[Ian Goldberg]

On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 09:21:04AM -0500, Jason Cohen wrote:
> >But this is the problem: how do you tell when "fail" happens.  If the
> >other guy's not running OTR, nothing will ever come back.  If he *is*
> >running OTR, but doesn't yet have your fingerprint, you'll only get
> >something back after the other guy has accepted your fingerprint.  This
> >can be an arbitrary amount of time, so a simple timeout won't really
> >work.
>
> How is the situation here different from any other time you attempt to
> setup an OTR private connection? The only difference it seems to me is
> that normally the session is created and then the user attempts to send
> a message encrypted. In this case, if the connection can't be made, the
> message isn't sent. However, if the encrypted session can't be setup,
> wouldn't it be obvious that the encrypted message couldn't be sent?

But what does "can't be set up" mean?  How should gaim know that the
other guy (a) doesn't have OTR installed, (b) does, but has the policy
for you set to NEVER, (c) does, but hasn't accepted your fingerprint
yet, etc.?

   - Ian