Those of you that have been having trouble sending Y! messages to people (myself included), a fix is on the way, hopefully soon.
1 year, 11 months ago.
3 comments so far
The problem occurs with users that have VERY old Y! accounts. As far as I can tell, what happened here is that originally, Y! accounts were case-sensitive. We're talking a long time ago.. maybe 5 years or more.
IM Gateway assumed that all accounts were case-insensitive (which they are if you create an account now). In my case, my Yahoo account is DarkStalk.. however IM Gateway would change it to darkstalk (since there's no case-sensitivity with accounts these days). You were able to receive messages, however upon sending, the Yahoo server just blocked them because it assumed that it was from a user that wasn't logged in.
So... the bug is now known and should be fixed with the next version of IM Gateway. In the meantime, if you were bitten by this bug, you could try to just create a new account and see if that works for you. (It should.)
3 comments so far
The problem occurs with users that have VERY old Y! accounts. As far as I can tell, what happened here is that originally, Y! accounts were case-sensitive. We're talking a long time ago.. maybe 5 years or more.
IM Gateway assumed that all accounts were case-insensitive (which they are if you create an account now). In my case, my Yahoo account is DarkStalk.. however IM Gateway would change it to darkstalk (since there's no case-sensitivity with accounts these days). You were able to receive messages, however upon sending, the Yahoo server just blocked them because it assumed that it was from a user that wasn't logged in.
So... the bug is now known and should be fixed with the next version of IM Gateway. In the meantime, if you were bitten by this bug, you could try to just create a new account and see if that works for you. (It should.)
1 year, 11 months ago by zerojay
Thanks for keeping up with this one. It was irritating...
1 year, 11 months ago by trullige
I'm just glad there aren't too many of our users with old accounts. ;)
1 year, 11 months ago by zerojay