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What do you mean when you say it is reading the away message??

Do you mean that kopete is sending away messages too often?

??? I'm confused. As far as I know, Kopete doesn't go out and 'Read' anybody's away messages. It simply receives away messages from contacts when they change their online status.

Thats right - you can't request somebody's away message. An away message is sent by the other client when deemed appropriate by their computer. You can't do anything about this.

As someone who is using miranda when working under windows, maybe I can clarify this a bit:

There is a pluggin for Miranda named "WhoIsReadingMyStatusMsgNotify", that logs when your away-message is read, and by whom, and writes it to a file.
I have a couple of friends that are using Kopete, and it goes as follows: every-time they change their away-message, I get a log-entry.
My explanation to this so far was, that every time a kopete-user changes his / her status, it requests the status of everybody on the contact list.
I wasnt aware that requesting status-messages isnt possible, but I dont know how else this would be possible, are you sure about the non-possible requests?

All I can say is, that its indeed pretty anoying, on the other hand you can just deinstall the plugin, its the question wether you are supposed to log your friends that way anyway (although I find it pretty interesting from time to time)

Still it would be nice to understand where the whole thing is coming from, so that bamse and others can be nice to their spy-friends

Btw.: is there a plugin that does something like this for kopete? As I said, its kinda interesting every once in a while....

greetz
Klunz

I'm not aware of such plugin, I even wonder if it is possible to retrieve someone's away msg at all without using C++.