[OTR-users] OTR with pidgin, question

[Ian Goldberg]

On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 08:46:16PM +0200, D H wrote:
> Hello alltogether,
> 
> i newly use jabber with pidgin (on mac os x 1.4.11) and experience some
> problems
> with off the record - authentification. when i want to use
> authentification settings - advanced, the window just disappears. Is this
> a known bug? I can enter "secrets" asked from me by others, but i cannot
> ask them myself.  Also when i authenticate a friend, she gets the message
> "an error occurred during auhtentification"
> my contacts mostly use linux or windows.
> 
> Pidgin crew tells me, it`s a third party plugin problem, and so I am here
> now. ^^

I suppose it could be.  I didn't even know you *could* run pidgin on
osx.  Do you know who built the pidgin-otr package you're using?
(What version of pidgin-otr is it?) Unfortunately, I don't have an osx
machine, so I've got no way to debug this myself.

   - Ian