[OTR-users] Some messages are lost via XMPP with OTR & Pidgin

[Ian Goldberg]

On Wed, Jul 03, 2013 at 11:08:29AM -0500, Scott wrote:
> I've been using OTR for Pidgin messaging for years, and recently gave
> up on AIM's service and moved to google XMPP.
> 
> Recently, quite often the first couple messages are not received by
> the recipient and there is nothing letting me (the sender) know that
> they didn't get the IM(s).
> 
> It seems like OTR is not automatically refreshing a private
> conversation with the recipient, even though I swear in the past
> (either using AIM or OTR v3.x) it did this just fine.
> 
> Is there any way I can figure out more details and potentially resolve
> this issue? It is really infuriating the unreliability of messaging
> this issues is causing me.
> 
> Here's an example conversation log showing that sometimes msgs don't
> get sent but nothing is shown to sender:
> 
> http://pastebin.com/drSVQSsb
> 
> I'm using OTR v4.0.0.1, pidgin 2.10.7 on Win7x64 SP1. I often have 2
> active pidgin sessions (one laptop & one desktop).
> 
> I can easily dig up logs or run debugging info if anyone offers help
> and needs additional information.

It looks to me like RECIPIENT was logged in using 6440ADA2 at 3:48 pm.
Your IMs went to that resource.  At 9:49 am, RECIPIENT logged in using a
different computer (CB778C43) and hadn't seen the earlier-sent messages
that should have been waiting for him on his other machine (6440ADA2).

Are you sure this wasn't the case?

   - Ian