Support offline messages to msn messenger

This bug is about when the other party is truly offline, so it is NOT a duplicate of Bug #68786, which is about when the other party is online but in "invisible" mode.

Quote from https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pidgin/+bug/68786/comments/3 :
"In fact, now msn can even store messages sent to offline people, as ICQ used to do ten years ago. But this is for another bug."
This is the "another bug" that he's referring to.

I could see in Pidgin changelog for 2.4.0

libpurple:
    * Added support for offline messages for AIM accounts (thanks to Matthew Goldstein)
http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/ChangeLog

However, I use 2.4.1 in Hardy, and offline messages are not sent to me.
I figured it out when I used the official msn client under Win, I received like 20 messages sent the past month!

So it is implemented ? Is it buggy ?

Huh? AIM is not MSN.

Oops.
You are truly right.

I investigated, and it looks like Emesene (python) and aMsn (tcl/tk) have it.

http://emesene.org/trac/ticket/1652
http://www.amsn-project.net/forums/viewtopic.php?p=27569

Kopete does not.
http://wiki.kde.org/tiki-index.php?page=Kopete%20MSN

The status of this feature (and a big bunch of other ones) can be tracked here:
http://developer.pidgin.im/milestone/Activate%20MSNPV14

I don't know what takes so long, though. IIRC the progress of MSNP<whatever-version-that-supports-offline-messages> was almost completed over a year ago. I also don't understand how the pidgin devs can think it's a "minor" issue to not send/receive messages, when that's the main purpose of an IM client.

fixed in 2.5

pidgin (1:2.5.0-0ubuntu1) intrepid; urgency=low

  * New upstream version (lp: #259453)
  * debian/libpurple0.symbols:
    - new version update
  * debian/patches/00_debian-ca-certs.patch:
    - not required in the new version there is a configure option
  * debian/patches/02_manpage-desc.patch:
    - the change is in the new version
  * debian/patches/03_gconf-gstreamer.patch:
    - the change is in the new version
  * debian/patches/16_yahoo_icon_crash.patch:
    - not required the new versions fixes the issue
  * debian/patches/20_purple-remote_friendly.patch:
    - the change is in the new version
  * debian/patches/21_zephyr-external.patch:
    - don't use debian change which doesn't apply to the new version
  * debian/patches/75_occured-occurred.patch:
    - the change is in the new version
  * debian/rules:
    - use new configure option to specificy ssl-certs directory

 -- Sebastien Bacher < <email address hidden>> Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:09:04 +0200