[OTR-users] Request: Pidgin plugin should request refresh if other user offline

[Greg Troxel]

Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com> writes:

> Far end logs off cleanly.  OTR shuts down.   Later I come back and
> type into the IM window. The message doesn't send, instead it just
> outputs a notice that OTR was shut down.   I can happily type into
> this box for sometime before noticing that it's not working.  Worse—
> I've lost what I wrote because the text doesn't appear in the history.
>
> I totally get and appreciate that you don't want one side thinking the
> channel is OTR protected and blabbering away into a clear-text
> deactivated stream.  ... and that messages which are never sent should
> probably not show up in the history  (otherwise I might never notice
> that my messages are not going out! :) )....
>
> But—  could it just attempt to initiate a new session in this case—
> then send the message, and not bother me with the fact that the other
> side logged out at all?

Agreed.  There's no good reason why this case should behave differently
From no OTR session and "OTR required" configured for that peer.  (Well,
I don't use that, but negotiating a session and retrying would really be
nice.  At least putting the message in the history with "NOT SENT: foo"
so you can cut/paste it again.)
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