[Adium-devl] AIM and Offline IMs and other unrelated issue

[Renee]

Incase you didn't know, AIM now allows for Offline IMs.  I guess I never noticed this before, until today.
My internet went offline for a few, and when it went back up, Adium reconnected.  After connecting, I get two IMs.  http://dollur.com/aimofflineim.html  Please look at that link, it's the transcript and log from this event.  Basically, I disconnected one of my AIMs in Adium, and then in iChat I sent an IM to my offline account.  I initially tried to send an IM to my offline account in Adium, but it did not produce the same results -  it did not actually send an offline IM.  So in iChat, I sent an IM from rbs0524 (online) to katlady1981 (offline).  I then reconnected katlady1981 in Adium and got the offline IM from rbs0524 as well as the aolsystem msg about offline IMs.


So here is the issue:  When you get the IM from aolsystemmsg, it gives you a link to manage your AIM account on their site.  I logged in there, and took a look and it shows that I have the option to receive offline IMs off/disabled.  According to AIMs sever-side prefs, I should not be able to receive offline IMs.  Yet in Adium, if someone send you a IM from a client other than Adium, it simply doesn't obey the setting not to receive offline IMs.


Can this newer feature of AIM be integrated into Adium so Adium will obey the server-side AIM settings?  As it is right now, if someone sends you an offline IM (from a non-Adium app) you will get it and also get the IM from aolsystemmsg every time. 
I hope I'm making sense, I'm not able to think clearly right now so this all might come out badly worded and confusing.  I would have filed a ticket for this, but I seriously doubt I'd be able to write up a coherent one.


There is another thing I'd like to mention.


Adium is great, and using trac/tickets so the devs and the users can communicate their issues is just a great help.  However, in order for a user to submit a ticket they sometimes need to include a debug or crash log.  Thanks to the internet being what it is, it is rather easy to find just about anything online.  When googling someone's AIM name, for example, you might find a link to an attached log from trac.  Meaning you basically can see a users' entire contact list.  That is just something that kills the privacy for people who are nice enough to submit tickets in order to help the project.  
Is there a way to respect peoples' privacy when it comes to logs they've submitted in trac?  Maybe have trac remove attached logs when a ticket is closed?  Or require a login to view the logs, which would make the logs unsearchable via google/other search engines?  
I was looking through some tickets, and when I saw http://trac.adiumx.com/ticket/8521#comment:3 that, it reminded me of this issue.  I've always been rather ticked off that logs I've submitted come up when googling someones' screen name (or even just googling my own).


I apologize if this is long-winded or makes no sense.  If I need to add more detail or explain things better, please let me know (and I'll wait until the painkillers wear off so I can be a bit more coherent).


Thanks for your time. 
 Happy Belated Chanukah and Merry Pre-Xmass to all :)


-Renee



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