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

[Byrd, Brendan]

Doesn't that force all IM conversations to use OTR, even if they don't
have it?  That's what I thought it was, so I didn't check it.

-----Original Message-----
From: otr-users-bounces at lists.cypherpunks.ca
[mailto:otr-users-bounces at lists.cypherpunks.ca] On Behalf Of Paul
Wouters
Sent: Monday, January 24, 2011 7:50 PM
To: otr-users at lists.cypherpunks.ca
Subject: Re: [OTR-users] Pidgin-otr 3.2.0 "was not encrypted:" fails to
generate a new alert

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
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