On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 10:10 AM, Evan Platt <[email protected]> wrote: > At 09:04 AM 10/5/2009, you wrote: > >> I am having the same problem as the user above except I am not trying to >> IM >> an AIM user, rather I am trying to send an SMS to a cell phone. I have >> the >> username as +17815551212 however I am still getting the error that the >> user >> is not logged in. This was possible to do in the past as I have used this >> feature however it seems to be doing nothing but throwing errors now :( > > Is this some sort of plugin? Or is there something else? Unless it truly is > broken (I've never tried it), I tried adding myself as a AIM buddy, with the > above mentioned format - +1########## , and it shows online, but I get > Unable to send message: Not logged in > > I'm guessing for this to work (this would be awesome BTW), the cell phone > needs a AIM client? But then why not AIM the AIM username?
+1########## is the normal syntax for sending an SMS to a mobile phone over AIM. It hasn't been working the past few days (in libpurple or in official AIM clients). Probably a problem on AOL's side of things. -Mark _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list Want to unsubscribe? Use this link: http://pidgin.im/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support
