[ ayttm-Bugs-1161584 ] Ayttm says I'm disconnected from MSN, but I'm not

Bugs item #1161584, was opened at 2005-03-12 00:34
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Category: MSN
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 8
Private: No
Submitted By: NovHak (novhak)
Assigned to: Colin Leroy (colinleroy)
Summary: Ayttm says I'm disconnected from MSN, but I'm not

Initial Comment:
Dear project contributors, and readers,

That happens very often (once a day at least): Ayttm
says I'm offline, though I'm not: I can see myself
online on other people's .NET Messenger clients. They
can even send me instant messages, but I won't receive
them, hence they're lost. Here's what I get from netstat:

tcp      645      0 192.168.170.1:32823    
207.46.107.12:1863      ESTABLISHED

Looks like packets come from the outside, but nothing
is read by the client, which considers himself
offline... but why is the connection still open then?

That's a major bug in my opinion, since messages are
lost, and the sender is not informed of it.

Btw, I connect to AIM and Yahoo with Ayttm too.

Best regards,

Olivier

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>Comment By: Philip S Tellis (bluesmoon)
Date: 2006-12-26 03:04

Message:
Logged In: YES 
user_id=341836
Originator: NO

does this still happen?

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Comment By: NovHak (novhak)
Date: 2005-05-20 21:48

Message:
Logged In: YES 
user_id=1187524

I have a workaround for this bug: if I uncheck the "Check
connection" checkbox in the MSN service preferences, it
doesn't happen any more... but then sometimes I'm not warned
that the .NET messenger server has closed the connection
until I try to send a message.

I currently use Ayttm 0.4.6-26. In case it's not possible to
solve this bug yet, may I suggest to remove the "Check
connection" option so that users won't be losing messages?
IMHO, being mistakenly reported offline (on the GUI), and
losing messages, is more critical than being mistakenly
reported online (on the GUI), and not losing messages.

Hope this helps,

Olivier

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