[OTR-users] Jabber, OTR and offline messages

[Paul Wouters]

I think I have run into a bug.

Someone tried to talk to be, knows I can do OTR, and tried to talk to me.
But this was jabber and I logged off. When I logged on, I was instantly
greeted with the stored OTR init message, but the reply didn't work. I'm
not sure if this was because the user was now offline, or because his
initial request timed out. This event crossed us a few times before we
managed to talk.

The question is what to do in this case? If OTR knows about the jabber
state of the target (online or offline), then it probably should refuse
a new OTR connection. But it should definitely not send a plaintext
message either, especially because it can be stored on the jabber server
for a while before the other party logs on again to retrieve it.

On the other hand, if OTR does not know about the jabber online/offline
status of the remote user, then I do not know what the proper way is for
dealing with this issue.

Paul