External actions when a contact changes status?

Matthew Ford <[email protected]> Fri, 02 Feb 2007 20:14:27 -0600 (CST)
Newsgroups gmane.network.centericq
Message-ID <[email protected]>
According to the README documentation, there are eight different event 
types for triggering external actions: 

  msg
  sms
  url
  online
  offline
  auth
  contacts
  notification

Unfortunately the documentation doesn't define all these events, and the 
examples only cover "msg" and "online". I am trying to set up an automatic 
response message to be sent when a contact changes status to/from Away. 
This is a standard feature in AIM, called a "buddy alert" or "buddy 
pounce". However, as far as I can tell there is no event triggered when a 
contact changes status in centericq. I tried configuring the following 
action, as an experiment:

%action test
event all
proto all
status all
%exec
#!/bin/bash
echo $EVENT_TYPE >> /tmp/events

I then logged into AIM from another account using the official AIM client, 
sent some messages to myself, changed status to/from Away, and finally 
logged out. The only events appearing in /tmp/events were "online", "msg" 
and "offline" - no events occurred for the Away status. I would have 
expected these to be "notification" events.

Can anyone help?

Matthew.
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