[OTR-users] Long Yahoo! IMs cause problem w/ Gaim/OTR?

Ian Goldberg ian at cypherpunks.ca
Sat Jan 27 10:03:59 EST 2007


On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 11:32:49AM -0500, Mark G. Spencer wrote:
> Hi Ian,
> 
> Do you know what the IM character limit for OTR is?  Or is the problem
> actually with the Gaim plugin not OTR itself?  I'm wondering if we use
> Adium X instead if we can avoid the infinite loop of errors that
> happens when an IM that is too long is sent.  Lately it has been
> happening a lot where my coworkers will copy and paste something into
> their Gaim (OTR and Yahoo!) and we end up having to close Gaim on both
> sides of the conversation.

OTR doesn't have a limit; the different networks have different limits.
That's something we're working on right now, though.

   - Ian



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