Kopete connection keeps getting closed talking to MSN official client

[Matt]

In Kopete version 3.5.2-0ubuntu6, if I try and talk to any of my contacts over MSN who are using the official Microsoft client on WIndows, I keep getting a message of the form;

<Username> has left the chat (connection closed).

appear in the conversation window (where <username> is the contact name). This happens when I try and talk to any of my contacts who are using the Microsoft client.

My work colleagues are also seeing this problem on their installations of Kubuntu.

[Matt (matt-madskills)]

This problem is also seen if the other contact is using Trillian on Windows.

[Matt (matt-madskills)]

I have reported this upstream in the KDE bug tracker as bug ID 132002

[Sarah Kowalik (hobbsee-deactivatedaccount)]

There used to be a bug about this - it's upstream, and it dealt with the way msn handles connections, if i recall correctly. I might try to find that later, and see what the solution was.

I dont seem to see this in kopete 0.12 versions....did it go away, or have I learned to ignore it?

[Matt (matt-madskills)]

I re-compiled v0.12 from source and was still getting this problem. I think it is an interaction between our company firewall and Kopete. The firewall doesn't seem to affect any other clients, like Gaim, Trillian or Microsoft's client though.

[Sarah Kowalik (hobbsee-deactivatedaccount)]

please file this bug upstream, with kopete, help, file bug. Assuming it's not your firewall to blame.

[Sarah Kowalik (hobbsee-deactivatedaccount)]

er, sorry. i should learn to read.

[Jérôme Guelfucci (jerome-guelfucci-deactivatedaccount)]

Do you still have this issue with the latest release of Ubuntu ?

[Reinier Boon (rtboon)]

Yes, the bug is still present in Kopete on ubuntu...

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

Is this symptom still reproducible in 8.10 alpha?

[Matt (matt-madskills)]

Unfortunately I no longer work at the same company, so am unable to reproduce this bug any more as I don't have access to the network with the troublesome firewall.

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

According to comments in the upstream support this is still an issue.

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

Fix committed for KDE 4.2.

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

Fix released to Jaunty. (As well as Intrepid via the kubuntu-experimental ppa packages)