Unable to send message: The message is too large.

[Ethan Blanton]

Judy MacKenzie spake unto us the following wisdom:
> I have just installed Pidgin on Ubuntu Lucid Lynx.  Yahoo account. Am
> chatting but if send more than about 100 letters, get error message sent
> instead"Unable to send message: The message is too large."  An example
> is this: " Teacher said is a requirement of industry,the paperwork that
> is" - had to go as 2 separate messages - "Teacher said is a requirement"
> and "of industry, the paperwork that is"
> 
> Anything I can do to fix this?

Turn off the colorize plugin which is turning your message into an
enormous rainbow of wasted bytes.

If you're not using the colorize plugin (which seems unlikely), we'll
have to revisit.  ;-)

Ethan

-- 
The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws [that have no remedy
for evils].  They disarm only those who are neither inclined nor
determined to commit crimes.
		-- Cesare Beccaria, "On Crimes and Punishments", 1764
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