[OTR-users] Bug with long messages being silently dropped

[Ian Goldberg]

On Thu, Nov 01, 2012 at 04:46:22PM +0000, Tigz Q Mordan wrote:
> On 30/10/2012 17:03, Chris Ballinger wrote:
> >On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 9:18 AM, Tigz Q Mordan <Tigz at hotmail.co.uk
> ><mailto:Tigz at hotmail.co.uk>> wrote:
> >
> >    When I try to send a message over a certain length (basically one
> >    and a half lines on my screen), the message is silently discarded.
> >    Not sent, no message warning me it was too long, nothing. This
> >    happens with all my accounts and people sending messages to me
> >    also notice this issue as well. It is of course kind of hard to
> >    hold a conversation when you have no idea if the other party's
> >    seen all your messages. Is there any way to automatically split
> >    them into multiple messages - or at the very least notify that the
> >    message wasn't sent, please?
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> >
> >What protocol are you using? It should automatically split long
> >messages unless you are using XMPP.
> (top-posting fixed)
> 
> Yahoo, MSN and AIM. It's not splitting for me, nor is it splitting
> for any of my contacts. I'm happy to help debug if it'd be useful!

AIM is our primary test network, so this is very weird.  Are you both
using pidgin-otr 3.1?  4.0?

   - Ian