[OTR-users] Question & Answer authentication on Yahoo

[Doug Breaux]

On 9/13/2013 3:02 PM, Ian Goldberg wrote:

>> In the past, I have noticed that otr/pidgin/yahoo silently drops messages
>> larger than a certain length.  Could this be it?
>
> Yes, that's definitely it.  We've had reports in the past that Yahoo's
> actual max message size is smaller than it is configured to be in
> pidgin-otr.  Are you using pidgin-otr 3 or 4?  In 4, the max message
> size is 799, while it used to be 832.  If you're already using 4, you
> could try shrinking it a bit more.  Please report what smaller value
> works.  (Note that you and your buddy will both have to do this.)
>
> Here's how to shrink the max message size for yahoo yourself:
>
> http://lists.cypherpunks.ca/pipermail/otr-users/2009-March/001625.html

FYI, I never found something small enough and quit trying. Switched to 
using Google chat for the same users.

Doug