Re: Recovering Log or Buddylist

2017-11-09 Thread Ethan Blanton
David Woolley wrote: > On 09/11/17 16:18, Richard Hector wrote: > > If my phone company in New Zealand goes away, that doesn't mean your > > phone number in Texas is now useless - I can get a new connection from a > > new company, and call you as before. > > Instant messaging systems aren't interc

Re: Recovering Log or Buddylist

2017-11-09 Thread Ethan Blanton
Rich Allcorn wrote: > Buddy list is a list of accounts on the server. If the server goes > off-line, those accounts go off-line, and are no longer available, > until the server comes back up. That is not entirely true. We also cache a local copy, which is in ~/.purple/blist.xml. This is the co

Re: AIM shutting down - continued log support?

2017-10-11 Thread Ethan Blanton
Echo Echo wrote: > As you guys have probably heard, AIM is being discontinued on December > 15th. While I rarely used AIM these days, one of my favorite things about > Pidgin how it logged conversations and allowed you to search within them. > Will this feature still be supported when AIM is discon

Re: Other domains

2017-10-06 Thread Ethan Blanton
Juan Pelaez wrote: > Well, I mean, people can use gmail, hotmail, yahoo, etc. I have a > customer that wants to chat among he's employees, small mom/pop shop. > So wondering if there's away to setup using his domain There are absolutely services that can be used for this. An XMPP server (such as

Re: Not seeing web visitors, anymore

2017-10-06 Thread Ethan Blanton
Scott Kushner wrote: > It used to be that we would see who was a web visitor in the buddies list > chat box when they access the page...now we do not see them unless they > actively initiate a chat. > > Is this a feature or a bug? I can't tell for sure, but I'm guessing you're using Olark or some

Re: *off topic * RE: Pidgin Zombie Process

2017-08-01 Thread Ethan Blanton
David Balažic wrote: > Ethan Blanton wrote: > > If you *just* restarted or reconnected, this can happen. They should be > > reaped shortly. (They're due to the DNS subsystem.) > > Wow, after 20 years this is still an issue on unix? > I remember experiencing it

Re: Pidgin Zombie Process

2017-07-19 Thread Ethan Blanton
Wade Smart wrote: > Pidgin has a status of zombie with N/A on resident memory > and shared memory. Im still using pidgin and havent noticed > a problem but there are at least 100 different pidgin processes > running. My OS is Ubuntu 16.04, Pidgin 2.10.12. > > What would cause this to happen and sh

Re: VPAT Support

2017-05-09 Thread Ethan Blanton
Steve Green wrote: > Is there documentation anywhere showing Pidgin’s compliance or partial > compliance to the Federal Government’s Voluntary Product Accessibility > Template (VPAT) for 508 Compliance? No. If the process is not burdensome (which I doubt, as you said Federal) and can be completed

Re: Pidgin/Plugin to read messages over Voice

2017-01-28 Thread Ethan Blanton
Eion Robb wrote: > Nope, but feel free to make one :) Note that there have been many over the years, and that they are notorious for being insecure. In particular, do NOT attempt to pass the incoming IM to the TTS program on the command line. It's just not a good idea. (At least two festival pl

Re: password

2017-01-25 Thread Ethan Blanton
Denise Nelson wrote: > I had to reset my password and need to update pidgin and cannot find out > where to update it See what I wrote before: > On 1/25/2017 12:14 PM, Ethan Blanton wrote: > >We do not know anything about Oracle services, this is a peer support > >list for a

Re: password

2017-01-25 Thread Ethan Blanton
Denise Nelson wrote: > where do i update my password? We do not know anything about Oracle services, this is a peer support list for a third-party software package (Pidgin) used by Oracle. Try this Oracle knowledge base article: http://my.oracle.com/site/git/1591/index.htm You must be logge

Re: Issue to connect to Pidgin

2016-11-03 Thread Ethan Blanton
Thierry Josse wrote: > I am supposed to be register to Pidgin with my login : HYPERLINK > "mailto:thierry.jo...@oracle.com"thierry.jo...@oracle.com We do not know anything about Oracle services, this is a peer support list for a third-party software package (Pidgin) used by Oracle. Try this Oracl

Re: Bad certificate on planet.pidgin.im

2016-09-22 Thread Ethan Blanton
Not to reopen a stale topic, but ... [snip FUD re: letsencrypt] Let's Encrypt policies and outlook have been well covered by the EFF, which was instrumental in making it happen. I believe it is now accepted by all major browsers and operating systems. It's a fine solution. It's not the one we

Re: AIM login

2016-09-22 Thread Ethan Blanton
Donald Le spake unto us the following wisdom: > Who should I send the DevID and distID? or if you don't mind I deliver it > here? The list is fine. It will necessarily be included in our public source code anyway, so it might as well go to the list. > I don't know exactly what did you get from u

Re: AIM login

2016-09-21 Thread Ethan Blanton
Richard Vickery spake unto us the following wisdom: > Your "point of contact" is your company's IT department; we are > merely volunteers. Are you aware of the term "open source"?‎ I realize you retracted this comment, but this sort of thing is becoming common (again) on this list. This comment i

Re: AIM login

2016-09-21 Thread Ethan Blanton
Donald Le spake unto us the following wisdom: > We will sunset the authorizers login.oscar.aol.com and slogin.oscar.aol.com > used by your clients today. > Notes: 53809 unique logins in July 2016, 54003 in August 2016 and 50810 to > date in September 2016. I believe we only use these when people h

Re: Cannot connect to IRC (Freenode)

2016-09-19 Thread Ethan Blanton
Diego Nieto Cid spake unto us the following wisdom: > Hello > > Today I've been unable to connect to the Freenode IRC network apparently > because de SASL negotiation is failing. > > The last thing I see in the logs is (the rest is attached): > > (14:02:38) irc: Now trying with EXTERNAL CRAM-MD5

Re: Where do I get my Pidgin password ? Thanks

2016-04-27 Thread Ethan Blanton
Ben Gordon spake unto us the following wisdom: > Where do I get my Pidgin password ? Thanks We do not know anything about Oracle services, this is a peer support list for a third-party software package (Pidgin) used by Oracle. Try this Oracle knowledge base article: http://my.oracle.com/site

Re: Unable to re-enable my account

2016-04-22 Thread Ethan Blanton
Todd McMahon spake unto us the following wisdom: > I'm unable to re-enable my account. Can you please assist? > > mcma...@jabber.spawar.navy.mil If this is your account, that's a Navy internal account that we cannot assist you with. This is a peer support mailing list for the open source Pidgin

Re: Password reset

2016-04-13 Thread Ethan Blanton
Engle, Robert spake unto us the following wisdom: > Is it possible to get my password reset? Maybe, but we can't do it. You need to contact whoever runs ICQ these days. Ethan ___ Support@pidgin.im mailing list Want to unsubscribe? Use this link: http

Re: Save log shortcut?

2016-04-09 Thread Ethan Blanton
John Xu spake unto us the following wisdom: > Why  my  email  would receive  the  your customer' s feedback?  I  am >  your customer to o, it's  a little annoying.  You are not our customer, you are a user of the Pidgin open source project, and you voluntarily subscribed yourself to our mailing li

Re: Save log shortcut?

2016-04-08 Thread Ethan Blanton
Xirix Lunara spake unto us the following wisdom: > Using Pidgin for AIM, would it be possible to have the Save As have a > shortcut, like CTRL+S? I don't like how close it is to 'clear log', I > would hate to click that accidently when I want to save my log. Hover your mouse over the Save As entry

Re: deactivation of "enterted the room / left the room" messages

2016-02-24 Thread Ethan Blanton
Wolfgang Krenn spake unto us the following wisdom: > In Group Chats with a lots of members the abundancy of messages like > "xxx entered the room" "xxx left the room" make it nearly impossible > to follow any conversation and see the real messages.. Load the Join/Part hiding plugin. Ethan __

Re: Help

2016-02-22 Thread Ethan Blanton
Kevin Kretz spake unto us the following wisdom: > If that's it, I still don't understand such a disproportionality of > Oracle users among those asking site-specific questions. We also used to get a lot from Olark. I assume they improved communication with their contractors (as I believe they s

Re: Help

2016-02-22 Thread Ethan Blanton
Kevin Kretz spake unto us the following wisdom: > The holy grail of this issue would be to find what or who is pointing all the > Oracle users to this mailing list. I believe that is Help | About. Ethan ___ Support@pidgin.im mailing list Want to unsu

Re: Help

2016-02-22 Thread Ethan Blanton
Patrick Mulligan spake unto us the following wisdom: > Please provide directions for loading Pidgin on my PC. I was able to > uninstall, I am hoping to reload it will make it functional. We do not know anything about Oracle services, this is a peer support list for a third-party software package (

Re: the certificate cannot be confirmed

2016-02-18 Thread Ethan Blanton
David Woolley spake unto us the following wisdom: > On 18/02/16 09:12, Ирина Козлова wrote: > >Whenthe user logs in Pidgin (inclusion), eJabber2 gives that the > >certificate cannot be confirmed. The validity of the certificate has > >expired 16.02.2016 and can no longer be considered valid. Functi

Re: Pidgin Contacts Erased

2016-02-15 Thread Ethan Blanton
Brett Hinckley spake unto us the following wisdom: > I had to change my domain password today and it wiped out all of my > Pidgin contacts. Can someone please help me retrieve them as soon as > possible? We do not know anything about Oracle services, this is a peer support list for a third-party s

Re: PIDGIN IM CLIENT NOT WORKING _ NEW JOINEE - 57764

2016-02-09 Thread Ethan Blanton
Shiva Kumar spake unto us the following wisdom: > I am unable to see any Buddies on the IM and the FAQ document did not > resolve my issue. We do not know anything about Oracle services, this is a peer support list for a third-party software package (Pidgin) used by Oracle. Try this Oracle knowle

Re: Help

2016-02-04 Thread Ethan Blanton
Kevin Kretz spake unto us the following wisdom: > It would be great if an Oracle person could send the address of the > person or team who administers their IM system so requests could be > directed to them. I sent an email with the relevant internal Oracle help page earlier this week. It is here

Supporting Oracle

2016-02-02 Thread Ethan Blanton
All, By way of the contacts of a retired Pidginer, I was able to get a link for Oracle support of IM (or something like that, I don't know, it can't be loaded except from within the Oracle machine). It is: http://my.oracle.com/site/git/1591/index.htm We should pass this to Oracle support re

Re: re-enable my account

2016-02-02 Thread Ethan Blanton
Laura Kaye spake unto us the following wisdom: > How do I re-enable my Pidgin account? I've been to accounts/ re-enable > & nothing. Contact Oracle technical support. This is a peer-support mailing list for the Pidgin client. We cannot help you with your internal support problems. Ethan __

Re: help

2016-01-14 Thread Ethan Blanton
Eric Hadrych spake unto us the following wisdom: > I am getting the following: > > eric.hadr...@oracle.com/EHADRYCH-T440S (beehive) disabled > > not authorized > > cannot re-engage pidgin; Modify account re-enable do not work This is an Oracle internal problem. We are a public peer support mail

Re: Seeing many defunct pidgin processes

2015-12-07 Thread Ethan Blanton
Michael McConville spake unto us the following wisdom: > Steven DuChene wrote: > > One of the accounts I have setup in pidgin is a sipe account for work. > > When I start pidgin it always fails to connect with a SSL connection error. > > In order to get it to connect I then have to repeatedly click

Re: how do i configure facebook on pidgin using xmpp the default facebook protocol

2015-07-30 Thread Ethan Blanton
Anthony Hove spake unto us the following wisdom: > how do I configure facebook on pidgin using xmpp the default facebook > protocol You can't. Facebook broke their XMPP implementation in a non-standards-compliant way that Pidgin does not support (and should not support, for security reasons). Et

Re: Problems with Changing passwords on chat rooms

2015-07-23 Thread Ethan Blanton
Sharon Joseph spake unto us the following wisdom: > I am creating chatrooms and adding passwords. > > When it is time to change the passwords so that I block people from > using it until I give them password, I run into some issues and it's > probably my understanding of how this works. > > On the

Re: Pidgin settings

2015-07-23 Thread Ethan Blanton
Vera Jimenez Ullrich spake unto us the following wisdom: > I have realized that my Pidgin status always shows "Do not disturb - > In a meeting", even when I have changed it to "Available" and appears > like this on my screen. My colleagues have told me this is due to the > fact that it is connected

Re: Password Reset

2015-07-23 Thread Ethan Blanton
Brian Morrison spake unto us the following wisdom: > On Wed, 22 Jul 2015 14:51:51 -0400 > Ethan Blanton wrote: > > > IT at Oracle does a terrible job > > And that's putting it mildly, they seem to want to deliberately upset > the people that support the developme

Re: Password Reset

2015-07-22 Thread Ethan Blanton
Quennie Marmolejo spake unto us the following wisdom: > stop sending me emails!! i did not mean to send this for public You sent an email to a public, peer-support mailing list for an open source software application. You should inform your IT department if this makes you unhappy. IT at Orac

Re: Password Reset

2015-07-22 Thread Ethan Blanton
Dave Warren spake unto us the following wisdom: > On 2015-07-22 05:44, Quennie Marmolejo wrote: > >I already got this taken care of, can you please close the case. I went to > >the MIS dept. and helped me a week ago. Thanks! > > If you resolved this a week ago, why did you email a public mailing l

Re: nss vs gnutls - how does Pidgin choose?

2015-07-20 Thread Ethan Blanton
Kevin Kretz spake unto us the following wisdom: > How does Pidgin/purple choose which to use if both are available? It will use whichever comes up first when it readdir-traverses the plugin directory. Pretty awesome, yeah? Ethan ___ Support@pidgin.im

Re: Sync Conversations from Google Talk

2015-06-09 Thread Ethan Blanton
Arthur Allshire spake unto us the following wisdom: > Is there a way to get Pidgin to sync all conversations from your online > google talk/hangouts account to the client, rather than just archiving the > ones you have used Pidgin for (e.g. if I receive a message and I do not > have pidgin on it sy

Re: Access to Pidgin

2015-04-16 Thread Ethan Blanton
Gillman, Gary Thomas spake unto us the following wisdom: > I am a new employee and cannot log in to Pidgin my Global Password is > not working and my previous password must have expired. Contact Oracle IT. Ethan ___ Support@pidgin.im mailing list Want

Re: Sourceforge pidgin download page blocked by google chrome as malicious

2015-02-24 Thread Ethan Blanton
Philippe VIALLE spake unto us the following wisdom: > if I may, that's the binary file (Pidgin-2.10.11.exe) that was downloaded > that seems to get blocked (in fact, local detection of malicious files by > browser itself). OK, this is good information, thank you. The Pidgin Windows installer (typ

Re: Sourceforge pidgin download page blocked by google chrome as malicious

2015-02-24 Thread Ethan Blanton
Bogdan Harjoc spake unto us the following wisdom: > Tried to get pidgin-2.10.11 for windows from pidgin.im, and after the 5 > second delay on sourceforge, was greeted by a red page in chrome, saying > the site was blacklisted. I downloaded the file anyway and chrome deleted > it after the download

Re: There is no support for Linx Mint 17.1

2015-02-18 Thread Ethan Blanton
Brian Morrison spake unto us the following wisdom: > > I tried to install the last version of pidgin but it says There is no > > support for Linx Mint 17.1, please fix it. Thanks! > > You need to ask whoever packages Pidgin for that distribution of Linux, > I don't know who but it shouldn't be to

Re: Professional Support Request

2014-12-09 Thread Ethan Blanton
James Michels spake unto us the following wisdom: > I am looking for a consultant to provide professional support to contribute > code changes to Pidgin to allow it to connect to AoL through the Smarsh ( > www.smarsh.com/) archiving product. It looks from their web site like it probably doesn't re

Re: Code 500.

2014-12-08 Thread Ethan Blanton
Kevin Mills spake unto us the following wisdom: > Can you please help me? Here is what is happening: This is a problem that your server administrators need to solve. Contact your IT department. Ethan ___ Support@pidgin.im mailing list Want to unsubscr

Re: problem compiling pidgin 2.10.10

2014-11-23 Thread Ethan Blanton
Matthias Apitz spake unto us the following wisdom: > It works fine with a small change in the ./configure script: > > $ diff configure.orig configure > 17455c17455 > < GNT_LIBS="-lncursesw" > --- > > GNT_LIBS="-lncursesw -ltinfow" > > Maybe it's an issue only with FreeBSD, or even with certai

Re: problem compiling pidgin 2.10.10

2014-11-22 Thread Ethan Blanton
Matthias Apitz spake unto us the following wisdom: > I have problems compiling pidgin 2.10.10 in one of my laptops, running > FreeBSD 10.x: > > $ gmake > ... > Making all in plugins > gmake[3]: Entering directory `/usr/local/guru/pidgin-2.10.10/finch/plugins' > gmake[3]: Nothing to be done for `al

Re: I can not add friends

2014-11-20 Thread Ethan Blanton
Salvador Navarro spake unto us the following wisdom: > But I cann't add a friend to an account. I do not get the authorization > request at the destination friend. At the petitioner user I get Error: 404: > The remote server not found. Subscription: No (Pending destination) > > Would appreciate an

Re: Compiling libpurple on Raspberry Pi

2014-11-18 Thread Ethan Blanton
Marian Weimershaus spake unto us the following wisdom: > I'm currently trying to compile whatsapp-purple on my Raspberry Pi. > Unfortunately it seems to require libpurple, which (as far as I know) > isn't available in the Raspbian repository. libupurple is absolutely available in the Raspbian repo

Re: Verification Email

2014-11-17 Thread Ethan Blanton
Daniel Atallah spake unto us the following wisdom: > > The bug tracker doesn't send a verification email. What problem are > > you having with filing a bug? > > We actually have required email validation prior to posting for a while > (part of an attempt to reduce spam). I had no idea. That's a

Re: Connection encryption

2014-11-14 Thread Ethan Blanton
You asked the same question approximately eight times, I'm going to answer it once. steam...@post.cz spake unto us the following wisdom: > I just switched from Skype to Pidgin, and I had a question. > I use XMPP / Jabber with Pidgin. Is my connection fully encrypted? My friend > list, messages and

Re: MSN stopped connecting after latest update

2014-11-14 Thread Ethan Blanton
Tres Finocchiaro spake unto us the following wisdom: > In short, Microsoft seems to have blacklisted Pidgin. Since we're at their > mercy, there's very little that can be done other than to switch to > Microsoft's official client app. This is simply not true. Microsoft expired some old client ID

Re: Support Digest, Vol 87, Issue 17

2014-11-12 Thread Ethan Blanton
Memisyazici, Aras spake unto us the following wisdom: > Are you able to close pidgin at all? I've had a similar situation now > for a week, and due to this issue ended up uninstalling the software > and moving forward with Adium. Sounds like you're on OS X. We recommend Adium on OS X, in fact. >

Re: Pidgin not working today

2014-11-12 Thread Ethan Blanton
Heather Clark spake unto us the following wisdom: > We have been trying to sign into pidgin all day and it never loads. > Are you having system problems. Pidgin is not a system. You are using Pidgin, which is a software package, to connect to some system. You need to ask the maintainers of that

Re: Verification Email

2014-11-12 Thread Ethan Blanton
Zack Kruger spake unto us the following wisdom: > I am trying to file a bug report, but I cannot as I do not have a > verified email address. I have tried using this email and my gmail and > the verification email is not sent to either. Please help. The bug tracker doesn't send a verification em

Re: pidgin.im

2014-11-11 Thread Ethan Blanton
Wade Smart spake unto us the following wisdom: > Then you should probably pay more attention to who you are contacting. > You just posted to the public support group. No need to reply to spam. We just mark it as spam, and in the future it gets canned. Ethan _

Re: Hello World, how to use bonjour

2014-11-09 Thread Ethan Blanton
David Woolley spake unto us the following wisdom: > Another thing that is normally bad practice, but can be essential on > this list, is to CC the OP. For the record, CC the original poster (and/or other involved parties) is not at all bad practice. People with crappy mail clients *think* it's ba

Re: Compiling from source without '-g' in CFLAGS?

2014-11-02 Thread Ethan Blanton
Stoycho Ganev spake unto us the following wisdom: > I do not want a debug build, but I am unable to compile Pidgin without > -g in CFLAGS. > > I need a small binary with no debugging symbols. make install-strip Ethan ___ Support@pidgin.im mailing li

Re: multiple chat in pidgin

2014-11-02 Thread Ethan Blanton
Prakash Khadka spake unto us the following wisdom: > I have a small problem while using pidgin. We have setup pidgin for > customer support. lets say we have a,b and c users for live chat (customer > support) if a new user come online (for eg 'd'). Now 'd' start chatting > with customer support 'a'

Re: Handshake failed (-12272)

2014-10-31 Thread Ethan Blanton
Thomas, Brian J spake unto us the following wisdom: > Unfortunately, my company is blocking access to certain sites that may > help, so I'm coming here. What does error code -12272 mean? Does it > point to one particular aspect, like mismatched algorithms or keys > that won't work? Does everythi

Re: Account disabled - URGENT

2014-10-28 Thread Ethan Blanton
D R spake unto us the following wisdom: > My account has been disabled. > It says password incorrect. > Username : d...@plurismarketing.com > Can you please help me with password reset ? No. You need to contact your IT. Pidgin is a software package, not the service you're using. Ethan

Re: Errors in Pidgin 2.8

2014-10-28 Thread Ethan Blanton
Dale, Bill spake unto us the following wisdom: > The entire domain is recivieing the below error. This started > yesterday at noon. Any advise? If you're really running 2.8, the first thing you need to do is upgrade to 2.10.10. Not only will this fix numerous bugs, but it includes quite a few s

Re: please delete my mail from your site! i get spam mails!

2014-10-10 Thread Ethan Blanton
Lukas spake unto us the following wisdom: > I get a lot of spam mails. Please delete my very old email on your > site... As a policy, we do not do this. This mailing list is archived in dozens or hundreds of places on the Internet, only one of which is controlled by us. Removing it from our arch

Re: Not Receiving Messages

2014-09-23 Thread Ethan Blanton
Brad Webb spake unto us the following wisdom: > I am not receiving messages from other staff members. We all use the > same system, but for some reason I am not receiving their messages. This sounds like something you need to take up with your IT department. Ethan __

Re: Can't login now due to Change Password?

2014-08-13 Thread Ethan Blanton
Marsha Mekisich spake unto us the following wisdom: > I had to change my Oracle SSO password today, and now I am locked out > of my pidgin account? Is this normal? Did it not update my Pidgin > account, so now need to fully reset account? There is no such thing as a "pidgin account", this is a pub

Re: Character limit on passwords?

2014-07-17 Thread Ethan Blanton
Kristina Marusic spake unto us the following wisdom: > Weird. I'm using Windows 7 and Pidgin 2.10.9 (libpurple 2.10.9). > > I've tried uninstalling and re-installing Pidgin, and also copy/pasting my > password rather than typing, and I'm still unable to paste or type the full > password in. When I

Re: Character limit on passwords?

2014-07-17 Thread Ethan Blanton
Kristina Marusic spake unto us the following wisdom: > Mine scrolls along a bit, several dots past the viewable input box, > but then stops. The cursor freezes, the scrolling stops, and I'm > unable to enter additional characters. 22 dots is all I get, > regardless of how much I continue typing. I

Re: Character limit on passwords?

2014-07-17 Thread Ethan Blanton
Kristina Marusic spake unto us the following wisdom: > I'm trying to add a gmail account to my (newly downloaded) Pidgin, but I'm > unable to enter my full password due to the character limit. Gmail does not > have a character limit on passwords. Can the limit be removed, or will I > need to change

Re: help please

2014-05-29 Thread Ethan Blanton
Darrin Michaels spake unto us the following wisdom: > Can someone please help me delete messages found on the site? I need > to remove them for security reasons. I assume you mean the mailing list archives -- no. We do not and will not remove archived messages. They are also archived on dozens

Re: How to add a hangout group chat to pidgin?

2014-05-27 Thread Ethan Blanton
Mariano González spake unto us the following wisdom: > I've been able to add my gtalk account normally but cannot add my hangout > group chats. Any ideas? Our understanding is that hangout group chats use a nonstandard, possibly entirely non-XMPP protocol. I am not sure if there is any work on de

Re: Remove link

2014-05-19 Thread Ethan Blanton
Stacy Johnson spake unto us the following wisdom: > Is it possible to have the below links removed so that when my email > address is put into search engines, it does not come up? No. We do not control marc.info, you would have to contact them. In general, you are not going to have much success

Re: pidgin support /mailing list

2014-05-04 Thread Ethan Blanton
sabine kirchner spake unto us the following wisdom: > Is it possible to remove this entry so that it is no longer public. > Thank you. No. This mailing list is publicly archived in multiple locations that are not controlled by us. Ethan ___ Support@pi

Re: 409 error trying to sign into cisco jabber server (xmpp)

2014-03-21 Thread Ethan Blanton
morehead spake unto us the following wisdom: > when I try using pidgin to sign into cisco jabber at my workplace I get the > error message > > "1 account was disabled because you signed on from another location" > > I am definitely not singed in anywhere else, I have even powered down my > cell p

Re: purple-remote vs sudo

2014-03-14 Thread Ethan Blanton
Louise Baldwin spake unto us the following wisdom: > How can I get purple-remote to work through sudo? The scenario is that > I have a root cron job which automates several sequential tasks, some > of which must be run as the "Louise" user. The other scripts/commands > work fine using sudo, but pur

Re: help please

2014-03-05 Thread Ethan Blanton
Darrin Michaels spake unto us the following wisdom: > I do not not what more to do.I have tried everything to have my > info removed from your site and others. > > Please tell me how I can have this removed from your site: > http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.pidgin.user/12292 A) that

Re: pidgin don't "see" GPG Plugin

2014-02-26 Thread Ethan Blanton
acid...@hush.com spake unto us the following wisdom: > Hi, your pidgin don't "see" GPG > plugin(https://github.com/segler-alex/Pidgin-GPG/downloads) > http://s21.postimg.org/5c8mxjjmf/26_02_2014_20_19_42.png > Why? Check the debug log, it will tell you why it's not loading. Probably a version mis

Re: Need IP and Ports of Pidgin

2014-02-20 Thread Ethan Blanton
Mahesh Vishwakarma spake unto us the following wisdom: > We use Pidgin for internal communication, our server name is > irc.ostc.com. Can you please send me the list of IP address and ports, > so that i can configure the same into my Firewall. No. Pidgin uses only the IP addresses and ports that

Re: My Pidgin is unable to connect to Employer network

2014-02-18 Thread Ethan Blanton
Alec Szeftel spake unto us the following wisdom: > I am having trouble connecting to my employer's network. Can you lend > me any instructions as to how to remedy this? Talk to Oracle IT. We can't help you with this. While you're there, tell them that you didn't have sufficient in-house documen

Re: SSL Certificate Error

2014-02-17 Thread Ethan Blanton
Tomas Sidenfaden spake unto us the following wisdom: > I'm not sure it did. This is a Dell from work. I had it working on my > prior computer, but it does not seem to work on this one. My company > does have a firewall, though I'm confused why I could access AIM on my I don't know. I don't know h

Re: SSL Certificate Error

2014-02-14 Thread Ethan Blanton
Tomas Sidenfaden spake unto us the following wisdom: > Thanks for getting back to me. The first error is "Server closed the > connection" quickly followed by "Received Invalid data on connection > with server". I am trying to log into my AOL messenger account through > Pidgin. > > Does that help?

Re: Pidgin Credentials

2014-01-29 Thread Ethan Blanton
Logan Barnes spake unto us the following wisdom: > Hello my name is Logan Barnes and I work for the City of Jonesboro, AR > Information Systems. I'm currently trying to setup a Pidgin account > for Jeff Presley on a new computer. I've got everything but the > password to this account, username is e

Re: Last Seen Time Incorrect

2013-12-21 Thread Ethan Blanton
JoyceAndMichael.us spake unto us the following wisdom: > I use Pidgin to check on when my elderly father was last on the computer- > > Last seen is often way-off. Example he sent an email 7 hours ago but Last > Seen is 1 day and 2 hours - It was correct 7 hours ago. We can only report what the

Re: can't send message to group in office

2013-12-18 Thread Ethan Blanton
Bob Sloan spake unto us the following wisdom: > Can you give me some guide on how to get my users to be able to > message other people in their groups? Bob, You need to contact your internal technical support. This is a public support mailing list for the Free software that your company has inst

Re: Away status indicator/icon missing in IRC channel user list

2013-12-12 Thread Ethan Blanton
Kaarel Jõgi spake unto us the following wisdom: > I am looking for easy to see away status indicator/icon for irc > channel user list, however can not find a way to turn it on in any > options or plugins. > > Away status is available in rightclick-info panel and status changes > can be seen in mai

Re: Unable to connect to google talk with pidgin (2.10.7)

2013-11-15 Thread Ethan Blanton
John Liszka spake unto us the following wisdom: > use old-style SSL Is this set? If so, unset it. Ethan ___ Support@pidgin.im mailing list Want to unsubscribe? Use this link: http://pidgin.im/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support

Re: Build From Source ./configure errors

2013-11-10 Thread Ethan Blanton
Michael Bau spake unto us the following wisdom: > I am trying to build Pidgin from the source and when I run ./configure, I > get the following errors: > > ./configure: line 2672: config.log: Permission denied > ./configure: line 2682: config.log: Permission denied > > Google hasn't been very hel

Re: FW: Pidgin off line - Assistane Requested

2013-11-06 Thread Ethan Blanton
John Kabisa spake unto us the following wisdom: > My Pidgin is off line for quite some time now. Could you please look > into what may be the problem and get it re-enabled? We are still not Oracle support: > From: David Woolley [mailto:for...@david-woolley.me.uk] > Sent: Thursday, October 31,

Re: Support Digest, Vol 74, Issue 20

2013-10-18 Thread Ethan Blanton
Ian Dowd spake unto us the following wisdom: > Unsubscribe please Done. In the future, on most lists there are either headers or footers (or both, as in the case of this list) explaining how to do this yourself without sending mail to all members. Ethan _

Re: SSL security concern

2013-10-14 Thread Ethan Blanton
Ralf Skyper Kaiser spake unto us the following wisdom: > > >1. Do not allow non-private chats > > > > I don't know what this means. > > ...if OTR plugin is available then do not allow non-encrypted private > messages. Oh, OTR. This is a problem for the OTR plugin. We started discussions wit

Re: SSL security concern

2013-10-14 Thread Ethan Blanton
David Woolley spake unto us the following wisdom: > Windows, although far from open source, tends to take a similar > position by default, but does provide features like group policies > to allow a management lock down. Windows SSL security implementation > is also lousy, in your terms, because: W

Re: SSL security concern

2013-10-14 Thread Ethan Blanton
Ralf Skyper Kaiser spake unto us the following wisdom: > I made a list of features under section 6.4 that would make pidgin secure. > In summary: So ... we already implement a large portion of this list, either explicitly or implicitly. To wit: > For Jitsi/Pidgin/Jabber this would mean: > >

Re: SSL security concern

2013-10-14 Thread Ethan Blanton
Ralf Skyper Kaiser spake unto us the following wisdom: > can you clarify this quote from you please: > > "That goes against the general philosophy of open source clients. The user > should be assumed to be responsible." > > Are you saying that users who use open source clients are assumed to be >

Re: STOP EMAILS

2013-10-14 Thread Ethan Blanton
lfay...@fxdd.com spake unto us the following wisdom: > Please stop these emails from coming to the email > lfay...@fxdd.com please. I do not want to be > receiving emails any longer from ppl I do not know. I have removed you from the list. This is a public mailing list, a

Re: Pidgin now working

2013-09-04 Thread Ethan Blanton
Brian Morrison spake unto us the following wisdom: > On Wed, 4 Sep 2013 17:21:10 -0400 > Ethan Blanton wrote: > > > It's very short-sighted of you to think you understand the situation > > after one mailing list post. > > I know lots of people who either adm

Re: Pidgin now working

2013-09-04 Thread Ethan Blanton
Shayne Libby spake unto us the following wisdom: > Well - I appreciate the guidance, but I must say that it would be > pretty short-sighted for anyone to get an unfavorable impression of a > company the size and scope of Oracle, with a proven track record of > success, due to some IM challenges. My

Re: pidgin disconnects, finch stable

2013-09-03 Thread Ethan Blanton
thufir spake unto us the following wisdom: > I've switched over to finch because it stays connected. I'm on > wifi, so sometimes there be connection problems. In a totally > anecdotal way, it seems as though pidgin is unstable in this regard. > I've not noticed a problem with finch at all. Why w

Re: unable to login via google account

2013-09-01 Thread Ethan Blanton
Deshpande Nikhil spake unto us the following wisdom: > I am Nikhil, I am unable to login to pidgin via google account from last > 2days, previously I am able to login to pidgin but now I'm unable to login > and I updated to latest version 2.10.6 to 2.10.7 and still I am facing the > same issue. Ple

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