Re: Fire not showing up as away on AIM

On Dec 19, 2003, at 7:55 AM, Michael Park wrote:
> Been having a little trouble with Fire's away status.  When I set 
> myself as away using Fire, all my AIM buddies still see me as being 
> available.  I tested this myself by logging one account in using Fire 
> and another account using the official AIM client.  I set the account 
> that was using Fire to Away status with a particular message, but when 
> I tried getting info on the Fire account using the official AIM 
> client, it made absolutely no indications that I was actually away. I 
> couldn't even see the away message I set for myself.
>
> I also tested this using naim... it doesn't see my Fire account's away 
> message/status either.  The only way my AIM buddies know I'm Away when 
> I set myself to Away is when they get an autoresponse after trying to 
> message me when I set myself as Away.
>
> Additionally, the official AIM client does not see my Fire account's 
> profile at all.  Neither does it receive the Buddy Icon I set for that 
> account either...
>
> Is it some sort of misconfiguration error on my part or have others 
> been having these problems?
>
> I'm using a CVS build that dates back several days... had the same 
> issues with the 1.0 alpha too.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks a lot!

Are you using Oscar or TOC? The buddy icon is only supported on Oscar 
for example.

-Jason