Dummy protocol?

[alex at alexoren.com]

On 2020-06-14 3:09 AM, Eugene Grosbein wrote:
> 14.06.2020 13:55, alex at alexoren.com:
> 
>> On 2020-06-14 2:43 AM, Eugene Grosbein wrote:
>>> Pidgin keeps your contacts (no matter active or not) in the blist.xml
>>> that is readable and editable with any text editor of your choice.
>>> Just make sure you create backup copy of the file before editing
>>> and don't edit it while Pidgin is running.
>>
>> The buddies in blist.xml need to be associated with a protocol.
>> If the protocol cannot start (YIM for example), the contacts will not be visible in the UI.
> 
> Try this: create "fake" account (or use existing one) of any living protocol of your choice,
> for example XMPP (jabber) copy old logs to the directory (create if it does not exist):
> 
> logs/jabber/user at domain.com/oldbuddy at domain.com
> 
> No need to find living XMPP server, logs will be available anyway.

Pidgin pops up a message every several seconds as it tries to reconnect to a non-existing XMPP server.