[Pidgin] #2483: Offline Messaging Problems Part 2

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#2483: Offline Messaging Problems Part 2
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 Reporter:  Moggraider    |       Type:  defect
   Status:  new           |   Priority:  minor 
Component:  pidgin (gtk)  |    Version:  2.1.0 
 Keywords:                |    Pending:  0     
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 You closed my ticket before despite being wrong, so here it is again:

 "I can't message people on AIM and MSN who are appearing offline, even
 though they IM me first. Pidgin just saves all the messages as pounce even
 though the person is there talking with me. Please fix this."

 You stated in your response that MSN doesn't support offline messaging,
 and that is WRONG. Both MSN and AIM support offline messaging. I assume
 you use offline emulation because you can't use the IM client servers the
 way the real clients do to leave offline messages. But even if emulation
 is turned on, we should be able to converse with people _who are currently
 IM'ing us_ even though they _appear_ offline. So try to get Pidgin to know
 the difference between someone who's really offline and someone who only
 appears as such, because when somebody who is appearing offline IM's me, I
 have to sign out of Pidgin and log on to the real IM client to talk to
 them, and that is just dumb.

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Ticket URL: <http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/2483>
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