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[David Woolley]

On 06/05/14 20:26, David Woolley wrote:

>
> Maybe Oracle's server doesn't support this.  I think we guess that it is
> an XMPP one, but we don't actually know, and we certainly don't know
> which implementation and how it is configured.
>

As the best guess would be that you are using Oracle's server and and 
also that that uses XMPP, this reply to another question, on the mailing 
list, is probably relevant:

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: Facebook Chat Away Message
Date: Thu, 8 May 2014 00:37:52 -0700
From: Mark Doliner <mark at kingant.net>
To: Cassandra Margitan-Thomas <cmargita at gmail.com>
CC: support at pidgin.im <support at pidgin.im>

Hi Cassandra. Pidgin only sends auto replies on IM protocols that have
historically featured auto replies (and the "auto-reply" preference
only pertains to those IM protocols). Specifically, only AIM and
Zephyr. This is because there's no way to indicate that a message is
an auto-reply on other IM protocols, and they tend to confuse people.

I think the purple plugin pack might include a plugin that adds auto
reply functionality for other protocols. More info at
https://bitbucket.org/rekkanoryo/purple-plugin-pack/wiki/Home