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Sending and recieving offline messages

Asked by Patwotrik

I can't send im to offline users (over msn, haven't tried others) like I can in Windows Live Messenger. If a buddy is invisible I can answer if I do it quickly. I have the same problem with recieving offline messages. I simply don't get them, so to check my offline messages I have to start Windows in a virtual computer, and start WLM there.

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Best John Bailey (rekkanoryo) said : 		#1

Patwotrik wrote:
> I can't send im to offline users (over msn, haven't tried others)
> like I can in Windows Live Messenger. If a buddy is invisible I can
> answer if I do it quickly. I have the same problem with recieving
> offline messages. I simply don't get them, so to check my offline
> messages I have to start Windows in a virtual computer, and start
> WLM there.

The version of Pidgin supplied in Ubuntu uses an old version of the MSN protocol
which does not support offline messages in any way. Pidgin 2.5.0 will provide
support for this feature.

John

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idyllic (idyllic) said : 		#2

Meanwhile, you can try emesene. It supports sending and receiving offline message from MSN, plus, it has a very clean interface.

sudo apt-get install emesene

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Patwotrik (patrik-broman) said : 		#3

Thanks John Bailey, that solved my question.

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lordskid (dickey-ko) said : 		#4

but how do I install pidgin 2.5?

Thanks

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Phil Hannent (phil-hannent-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#5

lordskid wrote:
> Question #41744 on pidgin in ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pidgin/+question/41744
>
> lordskid posted a new comment:
> but how do I install pidgin 2.5?
 If you enable the backports repository it contains 2.5.0

From the menu:
System -> Administration -> Software sources

The "Updates" tab and select "Unsupported updates (hardy backports)

Regards
Phil Hannent