(Move [email protected] to BCC and CC [email protected]. Sorry, my bad.) On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 5:41 PM, Mark Doliner <[email protected]> wrote: > ([email protected] so other people can benefit from this discussion) > > On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 5:19 PM, Jay F Shachter <[email protected]> wrote: >> Centuries ago, Nostradamus predicted that Mark Doliner would write on Tue >> Dec 3 01:41:25 2013: >> >>> It sounds like you're doing everything correctly. I don't know why it >>> isn't working. It doesn't work for me, either (from an AIM account nor >>> an ICQ account). >>> >>> I see two equally likely possibilities: >>> 1. The functionality is broken or disabled in the AIM and ICQ servers. >>> 2. The AIM and ICQ protocol has changed slightly and Pidgin isn't >>> behaving as needed in order for this to function. >>> >>> We could probably narrow the problem down further by checking if this >>> functionality still exists in official AIM and ICQ clients and whether >>> it still works there. >> >> I tried using their own Web-ICQ and it still didn't work. The >> symptoms were different. Their Web-ICQ told me that my contacts were >> offline (which is untrue, they were cellphone contacts, and their >> cellphones were turned on, so they were not offline). On the other >> hand, pidgin (and also empathy, I tried that too) tells me that my >> contacts are online, which is true, and it allows me to IM them, but >> the IM messages are never texted to their cellphones, they just >> disappear. > > I think the online/offline status is not important. AOL, AIM, ICQ, > Web-ICQ, Pidgin, etc. have no idea whether the person's phone is on or > off. That functionality isn't supported by the SMS network. Moreover, > SMS is a store-and-forward system, where if a phone is off or > disconnected then text messages destined for that phone will be stored > until the next time the phone connects to the mobile network. > > Pidgin ALWAYS shows "+NNNNNNNNNNN" contacts as online to make it > easier to send messages to them.
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