While chatting with a buddy on the MSN protocol, I have noticed that sometimes I'm not getting all of his messages. After I have logged out, restarted pidgin, and logged back in, I have received a bunch of messages that were missing from the previous conversation. A sidenote: it also has completely crashed once last week. Even though this happened only one time so far I suspect there could be something wrong because I don't remember a single crash ever since it has been renamed to pidgin... The first time I've experienced this bug is with 2.5.3, but I don't use MSN as often as I'm used to upgrade pidgin so I'm not sure whether it has been introduced with this particular version. I'm pretty sure that 2.4.x versions didn't have this problem. Now as a first step I have downgraded to 2.5.1 but I haven't had too much chance to test yet so time will tell... Reproducible: Sometimes I do have the pidgin-encryption plugin installed but it was not activated in this session so I doubt it has something to do with it.
this has nothing to do with gnome, please don't touch "component" if you don't know what you are doing and leave it to bug-wranglers, thanks.
Please see if 2.5.1 and 2.5.2 exhibit the same problem?
Created attachment 178207 [details, diff] MSN Patch for pidgin 2.5.3 Patch fixes the MSN issue in 2.5.3
2.5.1 also exhibited the problem.
Version 2.5.4 seems to have the above fix included: * MSN o Change Contact Server to temporarily fix connection problems. (Thanks to Youness Alaoui) Please somebody confirm that this is the one! What this apparently did fix is that now I can see on MSN whether a buddy "Has you" or not but it did not fix the "messages get silently delayed" problem I have reported. What I have noticed since then is that when I'm chatting with my connection status set to "Invisible" then a lot more messages get lost than when I have the connection status "Available".
Ah, the "Has you" bug seems to have nothing to do with the above fix, FYI: http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/6637 But lately I often do have MSN connection problems even with 2.5.4, so... :)
Many things can cause this: - wrong ca-certs (the backed-up messages server use a different SSL passeport than other servers: delayed messages are blocked when the client dont have a valid passeport for this server) - http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/3456 can cause message loss - network failures - other to help, we need emerge -vp pidgin and a detailed log (pidgin -d, or the content of the debug window)
this is an upstream problem