QQ account disabled because of protocol error in Pidgin and Empathy
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Empathy |
Unknown
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Medium
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Pidgin |
Confirmed
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Unknown
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pidgin (Ubuntu) |
Opinion
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Medium
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: pidgin, empathy, telepathy-haze, libpurple
It has been over 16 months QQ chat protocol is unusable in linux.
Pidgin (libpurple) and Empathy (telepathy-haze) with default settings prevent logging into QQ servers because of protocol incompatibility.
Modifying the server version with QQ2008 enables the user to log in only for a very short time (a few hours).
As the original reporter stated back in June 2009 and I presonally confirm today October 2010 (Ubuntu Maverick 10.10, default install) Trencent (the QQ provide) disables all user accounts permanently once they are found using an unofficial version of the client.
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The official version of the client linuxqq (available from the official website of QQ) is dated January 2009 and on current versions of Ubuntu crashes after the second sentence typed in and sent to the other party.
eva package, another alternative for QQ, is dated back to 2006.
Windows QQ does not correctly run under wine.
Currently there is no valid alternative to anyone willing to chat using QQ protocol.
description: | updated |
Changed in empathy: | |
importance: | Unknown → Medium |
Changed in pidgin: | |
status: | Unknown → Confirmed |
Changed in pidgin (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Incomplete → Opinion |
Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better.You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Do you get the same with Lucid or Maverick? Thanks in advance.