[OTR-users] Dropped large messages with Pidgin 2.5.5, OTR plugin, and Yahoo

[Doug Breaux]

Ian Goldberg wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 05:02:30PM -0500, Doug Breaux wrote:
>   
>> I'm not sure when this started, but I did recently upgrade my Pidgin
>> to 2.5.5 and I know that now if I send large messages encrypted with
>> OTR over Yahoo (problem seemed to not occur over GTalk), they are
>> dropped silently.
>>
>> I used to at least see a string of error messages when this kind of
>> defect existed, but now neither I nor the recipient receive any
>> indication at all.  (Me that there was a problem or him that any
>> message was sent.)
>>     
>
> Weird.  It sounds like the max message size of the Yahoo protocol has
> gotten smaller (or maybe pidgin 2.5.5 adds more overhead?).
>
> You can try this:
>
> In your pidgin/purple directory (the same directory your
> otr.private_keys file is in), make a text file called
> otr.max_message_size and put this line in it:
>
> prpl-yahoo	800
>
> that's a tab between the protocol name and the number.
>
> See if that works.  Try slightly smaller numbers if it doesn't.  [The
> default for yahoo is 832.]
>
> Please report back if making this number smaller fixes things.  (Or if
> it doesn't, I guess.)
>
> Thanks,
>
>    - Ian
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>   
Ok, thanks for at least something to try.  I'll have to wait until my
"test partner" is back from vacation, but we'll try to
see if we can find the limit.

Doug