[OTR-users] Pidgin-otr 3.2.0 "was not encrypted:" fails to generate a new alert

Ian Goldberg ian at cypherpunks.ca
Sun Jan 9 17:05:09 EST 2011


On Sun, Jan 09, 2011 at 02:17:25PM -0700, Sean Lively wrote:
> If I have an existing encrypted conversation, and the other party
> disconnects/reboots/ect, and then sends a new message, I don't get a
> new message alert in Pidgin. When I happen to look at that message
> tab, I'll see:
> 
> The following message received from user at hotmail.com was not encrypted: [hey]
> 
> as a green system alert type of message. this is eventually followed
> up with an angry email/phone call because I'm ignoring someone on IM.
> Any ideas?
> I'm using Pidgin 2.7.7 on Win7 x64

Indeed, someone else reported that recently.  The trick is to figure out
a way to unambiguously show that the message was not encrypted, while
allowing Pidgin to treat it as an ordinary (not system) message.

   - Ian



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