Comments for BitlBee
Re: Great idea, but still not there
Gaim has changed a lot since we "stole" their IM-code from Gaim 0.58, so it's going to be hard to backport these changes. But we'll certainly find something in the (hopefully near) future.
Thanks for the comment, hope to see you later.
Re: Great idea, but still not there
Interestingly enough, Gaim has no trouble downloading ICQ contacts from the server. Perhaps it is possible to use their code in this matter?
Anyway, thanks for reply and keep up the good work :)
Re: Great idea, but still not there
Downloading the contact list is not possible for ICQ, but for other protocols it does work, and there are some scripts available to convert contact lists from other programs to BitlBee.
This is not perfect, we know that, so a new future version will hopefully come with better IM libraries.
Great idea, but still not there
I would really love to use this, as it looks like an ideal solution to me (me being a console guy as well), but BitlBee never imports any contacts from the server. And since I do not like the idea of importing 150+ contacts by hand, I will have to wait for some other version, which will work...
Re: Brilliant idea, but slight execution problem.
I don't know what it could be, but maybe syslog can tell you. This might mean the bitlbee binary can't be executed or even found.
Brilliant idea, but slight execution problem.
At least, I can't execute it. ;)
I've tried building it both on my FreeBSD 4-Stable system and my Slackware 9.0 system and I have the same problem with both. The software will build and the daemon run, but it immediately drops any connections.
bash-2.05a$ telnet localhost 6667
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost
Escape character is '^]'.
Connection closed by foreign host.
I've checked hosts.allow even though I turned off tcpd support, just in case. What obvious newbie error am I making here? :)
Re: reconnect
I finally implemented this last week, so if you're interested you might want to take a look. It seems to work quite well for most testers.
Sorry for the doublepost, I hope Galeon will behave this time. :-/
Re: reconnect
The connection/account system is going to be redesigned. Reconnecting will be a matter of "reconnect x" instead of /reconnect or re-entering the whole login string.
That sounds a lot better to me. Fully automatic reconnecting won't be that hard as soon as I get this implemented.
Re: reconnect
The connection/account system is going to be redesigned. Reconnecting will be a matter of "reconnect x" instead of /reconnect or re-entering the whole login string.
That sounds a lot better to me. Fully automatic reconnecting won't be that hard as soon as I get this implemented.
The Bee owns
Very good concept, this is just about all I use, as far as IM goes. There is one issue I have not been able to resolve, though. On the Jabber server at my office, we use an alerter service to send jabber alerts, to report on various statistics. The "alert" user is always in offline mode, and my bitlbee account can't seem to receive any messages from it. I don't know the details of this alerter service, but I wondered if there is some nicer offline user-handling I am missing out on?