[Pidgin] #7959: Auto Reply Doesn't Work For When Messaging A Phone In AIM

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#7959: Auto Reply Doesn't Work For When Messaging A Phone In AIM
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 Reporter:  gmweezel                                                                    |           Owner:  MarkDoliner
     Type:  defect                                                                      |          Status:  closed     
Milestone:                                                                              |       Component:  AIM        
  Version:  2.4.3                                                                       |      Resolution:  cantfix    
 Keywords:  phone,text,message, text message, away, away message,auto,reply,auto reply  |   Launchpad_bug:             
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Changes (by MarkDoliner):

  * status:  new => closed
  * resolution:  => cantfix


Comment:

 I thought about the best way to handle this... I was thinking maybe we
 could check if the buddy is a mobile user and not try to send them an
 auto-reply.  But that's tricky for two reasons:
  1. It's only effective if the buddy is in your buddy list.  And so you'd
 have different behavior depending on whether the buddy is in your buddy
 list, which could lead to a very small amount of confusion for people who
 actually notice.  And you'd have different auto-response behavior based on
 whether the person was mobile, which could also lead to a very small
 amount of confusion.
  2. The auto-response is sent from the libpurple core, and the libpurple
 core is protocol agnostic and doesn't realize that the protocol doesn't
 allow auto-replying to mobile users.  It's possible that AIM is the only
 protocol that auto-replies, and it's possible that we wouldn't want to
 auto-reply to mobile users even if the protocol allows it.

 To do it right we would probably want to move all the auto-response stuff
 into oscar (which isn't a horrible idea), or add another !PurpleConnection
 flag for SUPPORTS_AUTOREPLIES_TO_MOBILE or something.

 Anyway, I just don't think it's worth the effort to improve the
 interaction for this specific case.  Especially since, if you message the
 person first then Pidgin won't send an auto-response when they reply.

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Ticket URL: <http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/7959#comment:3>
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