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

[Paul Wouters]

On Sun, 9 Jan 2011, Ian Goldberg wrote:

>> 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.

A workaround is to have the remote partner set "require private communications"
for you.

Paul