Sascha Vogt spake unto us the following wisdom: > Ethan Blanton schrieb: > > Sameer Bhiwani spake unto us the following wisdom: > >> I currently have Pidgin 2.5.1 and want to install 2.3.1 as it supports > >> connecting to multiple XMPP servers with the same login/password. Not sure > >> why this functionality was dropped int he newer releases. > > > > What do you mean, here? Pidgin has never supported using the same > > u...@host pair on more than one XMPP server, and all versions of > > pidgin support using differing u...@host pairs on different XMPP > > servers. > > I think there was a bug which allowed duplicate XMPP accounts with > different connect servers. This ticket (though not sure, if this is what > I remember being discussed on this list) > http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/5086 seems to be related... > > To the OP: This never was a "functionality" but a bug, which has been fixed.
Interesting. If it ever worked, it was *certainly* a bug, and I would
be shocked to find out it was at all reliable. Many things in Pidgin
look up information by the account name, which, for XMPP, is u...@host.
Ethan
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