Re: Linux ICQ client that doesn't suck?
On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 03:56:46PM -0800, Mark Ferlatte wrote:
> Does anyone out there use ICQ under Debian? So far I've tried licq and
> gaim with the ICQ plugin, and both of them have very annoying problems
> (messages get lost, or messages from previous sessions get delivered
> again on client startup... this is a problem when you have 20+
> messages that come in everytime you start your ICQ client).
>
> I'm considering installing WINE and trying to get the Windows ICQ client
> to work, but that seems both iffy, and difficult, since I don't have a
> Windows machine anymore to steal DLL's from (although I do have a Win98
> CD, so I may be able to just extract them as needed).
>
> Suggestions would be very welcome at this point. Unfortunately, the
> suggestion to drop ICQ for another IM is not feasible, due to the
> infamous Circumstances Beyond My Control (tm).
I can only confirm what others have said - lite works. Though I can only
get it to work from netscape 4.77 - mozilla, konqueror and opera don't
seem to like it, though it may be more my java set up...
I tried to work out why this was happening, collecting traffic with
ethereal, but that can't decode icq v2 protocol. It's most likely a change
caused by your contact list now being kept with mirablis - thus it doesn't
matter where you are now, so long as you remember you UIN you can get your
entire contact list. I've got a feeling that the problems are made worse
if you're on a privart network and using a gateway. Not sure about that
though.
Matthew
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