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 -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham England BOFH Excuse Board: excessive collisions & not enough packet ambulances
