Re: Found the source of various AIM problems

I committed a fix for this today.  It may make the next alpha build.


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Graham Booker                   Texas A&M University
[email protected]    Graduate Student in ELEN
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On Feb 10, 2004, at 3:28 AM, Michael Park wrote:

> A while ago I reported to this list that I was having a few troubles 
> with the AIM part of Fire.  Buddies on my list could never see when I 
> was away or idle.  Additionally they could not see my away message 
> when they tried getting info on me until they actually got an away 
> message response when they messaged me.  Lastly nobody could see my 
> profile - it was totally blank to any user that tried to look at it.
>
> I found out what the problem was, and am hoping if The Developers That 
> Be are aware of it.  After much fiddling I found out that it seems to 
> be somehow related to the profile that I was using.  There seems to be 
> an internal limit to the amount of characters the Fire profile (or 
> perhaps the AIM server?) is able to store before things start 
> breaking.  If you stay under that limit, everything is fine, but if 
> you went over it (like I did) stuff stops working.  I don't know what 
> the character limit is, but when I cut my HUGE profile in half, all 
> the stuff that broke started working again.
>
> Has this bug been reported?
>
> And once again, I would like to say thank you for an awesome Mac OS X 
> messaging client!
>
>
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