Bug 114234

Summary:	icq: new accounts never online
Product:	[Unmaintained] kopete	Reporter:	Michal Svec <rebel>
Component:	ICQ and AIM Plugins	Assignee:	Kopete Developers <kopete-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	davidpjames
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	0.10.3
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Michal Svec 2005-10-11 18:55:02 UTC

Version:           0.10.3 (using KDE 3.4.2 Level "b" , SUSE 10.0)
Compiler:          Target: i586-suse-linux
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.13-15-default

I created a test account via www.icq.com and connected via licq. Then I added that contact to kopete and my kopete contact to licq. I was able to see my status in licq, but not vice versa, my test account was always offline. I could have send messages, just the status was wrong.

I solved that with running licq with my primary account, add the test account to my contact list (kopete hasn't synced it there?) and it worked OK. After I quite licq and run kopete again, it works now in kopete too.

Comment 1 Ioannis Panteleakis 2005-10-16 18:52:22 UTC

well.. i got the same problem. At least i think so. Every new account i add to my icq contact list if always shown as offline. I tried using for the first time the official icq client.. and the users i added to kopete weren't there (except for older users). So it seems like kopete just doesn't add users server side or something... i really don't know..

Comment 2 Ioannis Panteleakis 2005-10-29 16:39:01 UTC

ok.. i know what the problem is. When ppl (not in my contact list) send me a msg they're not added server-side and that's why i can only see them offline even though i can interact with them. If i manually add them from the menu then everything is ok..

Comment 3 Matt Rogers 2005-12-17 01:30:14 UTC

Michal: could you please clarify what the bug is? I don't understand what I need to do in order to reproduce this and get it fixed. Thanks

Comment 4 Michal Svec 2005-12-17 14:00:34 UTC

From comment #2 it seems that Kopete doesn't add new contacts server-side and thus they never appear online in kopete (my guess).

I reproduced it this way:
  * create a new ICQ account <test>
  * add it to Kopete contact list
  * go online with <test> (I used licq)

  -> you could chat together between you and <test>, but Kopete never shows <test> as being online.

I "fixed" it by closing kopete, running licq on my account and running kopete again. Then everything works as expected.

Comment 5 Gunter Ohrner 2006-01-08 22:06:49 UTC

A work around is also to delete these "inactive" accounts and simple re-add them using Kopete's "add contact" wizard. This works, but is annoyingly inconvenient.

Comment 6 David P James 2006-02-16 06:12:01 UTC

FWIW, I can confirm this (comment #2 and comment #5) as well. Moving such a contact to your list doesn't have any effect to their status nor does selecting "Add to your Contact List" from the context menu.

Not a new problem either:
bug 71305 (wasn't fixed by the fixing of the bug it was duped against - bug 66259).

Comment 7 Matt Rogers 2006-03-16 19:50:35 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 104243 ***