Adium

Ticket #7913 (closed defect: fixed)

Opened 1 year ago

Last modified 2 months ago

Blocking is ineffective in MSN

Reported by: Darmenthal Assigned to: nobody
Priority: normal Milestone: Adium 1.3.2
Component: MSN Version: 1.3b11
Severity: normal Keywords: privacy
Cc: Patch: None
Pending: 0

Description

Since I started using MSN, I've noticed that, at least upon inital blockage, the blocked person can still send me messages. The reason I'm blocking him is that I don't want him to message me, yet he still can.

Change History

09/15/2007 09:16:08 AM changed by jas8522

  • status changed from new to closed.
  • resolution set to wontfix.

I just tested this by doing the following:

  1. Blocked a contact
  2. Asked them to message me (they are in the same room). I did not receive the message.
  3. I sent the contact a message which went through fine
  4. They are now able to message me fine.
  5. Restart Adium with the contact blocked and they are again unable to message me

This is normal blocking behaviour - the contact cannot contact you unless you contact them first.

09/16/2007 01:31:13 AM changed by cbarrett

Er, what? Verify that with the official MSN client? At least on AIM you just can't contact a blocked person, AFAIK.

09/16/2007 08:44:32 AM changed by jas8522

I did ... someone blocked me using WLM8.1 on Windows, and I was still able to message them due to offline messaging. Blocking simply makes you appear offline to the blocked contact - if they wish to try offline messaging then it will still get through. That's perhaps not how Microsoft wanted it to be, but that is how it is right now...

09/16/2007 09:18:05 AM changed by cbarrett

Hm, well, on AIM, I don't think things work that way.

Gathering more data about what each protocol means by "blocking" seems necessary (so when we fix it for MSN we can fix other protocols as well, and then document that on the wiki)

09/16/2007 12:25:54 PM changed by jas8522

Definitely sounds like a good plan. It's odd because I agree that the user should really not be able to message you, but generally speaking if you appear offline, they're not going to message you anyway. Then came my testing showing that offline messages are allowed to users to have you blocked - making things even more confusing.

Even odder, is that in MSN if you have a user blocked, you cannot message them - it greys out the entire window!

05/12/2008 02:10:47 AM changed by boredzo

  • status changed from closed to reopened.
  • resolution deleted.

For consistency's sake, we should ignore messages from anybody the user has blocked. I think that this is what most users expect when they choose the menu item that says “Block”.

05/14/2008 07:56:13 PM changed by djmori

I will suggest a "xxx@xxx.com appears to be bloqued. Are you sure you want to send this message?" promt, just like it appears when you try to contact an offline buddy?

05/14/2008 08:08:49 PM changed by djmori

  • milestone set to Needs dev review.

05/15/2008 08:38:13 AM changed by djmori

06/09/2008 08:57:57 PM changed by jas8522

  • milestone changed from Needs dev review to Adium X 1.4.

As p15 is now expected for 1.4 (knock on wood), may as well include MSN updates for said release.

08/01/2008 02:03:44 PM changed by Robby

  • keywords set to privacy.

08/08/2008 11:36:51 AM changed by jas8522

  • version changed from 1.1.2 to 1.3b11.

This behaves the same with msn-pecan in 1.3b11. Blocking makes the user appear offline, but does not block their messages, so if they wish to send an offline message, they still get through.

I will leave this here in the 1.4 milestone as we should be switching back to libpurple's MSNp15 Implementation for 1.4 anyway.

10/31/2008 09:36:10 AM changed by Dimmuxx

  • status changed from reopened to closed.
  • resolution set to worksforme.
  • milestone changed from Adium 1.4 to Adium 1.3.2.

This works if you have the right privacy setting in Adium Menu -> Privacy Settings... Make sure that the blocked user is not in your allow list!

10/31/2008 09:37:09 AM changed by Robby

  • status changed from closed to reopened.
  • resolution deleted.

10/31/2008 09:37:18 AM changed by Robby

  • status changed from reopened to closed.
  • resolution set to fixed.

;)