[OTR-users] OTR blocked for some ICQ users?

[Dominik Tugend]

A short correction:

The string containing ?OTR is recieved by the network adapter, just not 
passed through by the client (Pidgin / OTR).

Still doesn't explain the manual OTR session initation not working for 
all 3 users.

On 06.04.2014 15:07, Dominik Tugend wrote:
> Just to make it complete:
>
> Actually it seems that between us 3 every (obviously unecrypted) message
> _containing_ the string "?OTR" is dropped.
>
> His brother had "Acivate private message shipment automatically"
> enabled, that is why it works for him. I don't know, but I'd assume that
> the initation message is different then. Because when he disables that
> feature and tries to establish the OTR session manually, it fails too
> for him.
>
> Is noone else affected by this?
>
>
> On 05.04.2014 22:09, Dominik Tugend wrote:
>> Hello.
>>
>>
>> Sorry if this question has been already asked.
>>
>>
>> The situation is as follows:
>>
>> I am using OTR 3.2.0 with Pidgin on Windows XP.
>> My friend is using 3.2.1 with Pidgin (libpurple) on Gentoo.
>> His brother is using 4.0.0 with Pidgin on Debian.
>>
>> I cannot initate a OTR session to my friend.
>> I cannot initate a OTR session to his brother.
>> My friend cannot initatie a OTR session to me.
>> My friend cannot initiate a OTR session to his brother.
>> His brother can initate a OTR session to me.
>> His brotehr can initate a OTR session to my friend.
>>
>> It seems that the OTR initation message is actively blocked somewhere,
>> since it doesn't seem to be recieved on the network adapter in the cases
>> where it doesn't work.
>>
>> The same situation (apart from his brother being on a Windows machine
>> with 4.0.0) happend some months ago and it used to work in-between until
>> a few days ago or so.
>>
>> Also it's not my router, I just replaced the router with a different
>> model this week (though both are probably not good).
>>
>> So my question is: Is anyone else experiencing a similar problem with
>> ICQ, because Google didn't turn up anything useful when I searched for
>> that?
>>
>>
>> With kind regards
>> Dominik
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