[OTR-users] "Automatically initiate private messaging" doesn't work

[Alexander Buchner]

Sorry, it's kind of weird.
The situation is like this: I know my friend's ICQ and Jabber Account. Both 
are in my contact list and I "melted" them per "Expand"-Command. He did the 
same with my two Accounts, but we both had a different order. For me his 
"main account" (the upper one) was his Jabber, and vice versa.
And here is the problem. When you rightclick on a "bundled" Contact, I 
think you know what I mean, and select "OTR-Settings" only the main account 
will be affected. So he didn't look up his OTR-settings for my jabber but 
for my ICQ account. Can you follow me?
In our last test he noticed, that my Jabber account had different 
OTR-Settings, "Automatically initiate..." was deactivated. After he 
activated this option, everything worked fine.
So we went back and put the options as they were to produce the log for you 
but we couldn't reproduce the scenario. The OTR encryption always kicked in 
immediately.
Actually I think his client should have responded to my OTR-Request, 
independently from his option "Automatically initiate...". It didn't but we 
can't reproduce for now. I'm sorry.

But you should think about the rightclick->OTR-Settings problem. The 
settings one edits should be applied for ALL Accounts under this 
"meta-account", not only the most upper one. Am I right?

Alexander

Ian Goldberg wrote:
> On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 11:30:09AM +0200, Alexander Buchner wrote:
>> Hi again,
>>
>> here is the output of Pidgin's debug window while sending some messages to 
>> my friend: http://www.rzuser.uni-heidelberg.de/~abuchner/purple-debug.log. 
>> This time one can see the messages as plain text.
>> Do these logs help you?
> 
> Perfect.  It shows that your end is properly sending the whitespace tag
> that should trigger the other end into starting OTR.  (See the "Test"
> message.)
> 
> Can you do the same thing again, but capture both sides at once?  Your
> buddy checked the per-buddy configuration on his/her side as well?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
>    - Ian
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