[JDEV] ICQ transport question

[Paul Vet]

I've been subsciber to an icq-devel mailing list for the last while, and
they've reported that for old ICQ protocol versions (ie, 5 and under), the
servers have been dropping random offline messages.  I assume the transport
uses server messages, so that's probably where the problem lies.  I also
assume that the transport is probably version 5.

Apparently version 7 also had this problem, but less so.  Also, the official
clients tend to use client-client, bypassing any server trouble.

>From what I hear, the problem has cleared up now, but I'm not sure if that's
the case.

Hopefully this helps,
Paul Vet

> -----Original Message-----
> From: jdev-admin at jabber.org [mailto:jdev-admin at jabber.org]On
> Behalf Of Guy Segal
> Sent: October 24, 2001 11:34 AM
> To: jdev at jabber.org
> Subject: [JDEV] ICQ transport question
>
>
> Hello all,
>
> I have an up and running Jabber server (version 1.4.1) with an
> ICQ transport
> (0.9.5).
> All is well, except that only 80 percent of ICQ messages actually
> arrive to
> their destination.
> I've studied the ICQ transport log file, and saw there's a packet
> number for
> outgoing packets: server write 0144.
> I've also noticed all these packets either receive an acknowledgement from
> the Mirabilis ICQ server: server acked 0144,
> or get discarded after a number of unsuccessful attempts.
> I thought the ICQ messages that were allegedly sent but never
> arrived might
> be packets that were discarded, but that is NOT the case!
> All packets which never arrived were acknowledged as received by the ICQ
> system.
>
> How can I know the actual status of an ICQ message I send? Why is
> the Jabber
> system much less reliable than an actaul ICQ client?
>
> Guy Segal
> Software Engineer
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