[OTR-users] Initiating OTR from an irssi client to pidgin

[Justin Gombos]

* Uli M <a.sporto+bee at gmail.com> [2008-12-09 19:03]:
> 
> If OTR works when the other end initiates then you definitely have a
> key already. That you can't initiate an OTR session just by typing
> something might also have something to do with the settings of the
> other guy...what you can try is to write ?OTR?, that should force
> the start of a session.

Thanks for the tip.. manually sending ?OTR? worked.