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Before y'all flame me for not searching first, I did search and found a ton of threads about privacy settings, but nothing that addresses this issue specifically. I have several IM services in Adium (using 1.3.2b2) and for quite some time, several versions and perhaps never, I've been unable to keep the privacy settings to save across login sessions. I'm trying to do the following set
AIM - anyone
Yahoo, ICQ, MSN, Google Talk - Only people on my contact list

The problem is, when I log into Yahoo and ICQ I get a flood of IMs because someone must have a sniffer somewhere near yahoo to see when people log in and spam messages right then. I can then go in and change the privacy settings and I'm fine for the rest of the session, but it's annoying to have to do this each login. Is there a way to make this setting permanent?

Thanks!

ICQ doesn't support that setting so it resets it every time. I don't know if that's why it happens for Yahoo! too but probably.

Dimmuxx wrote:ICQ doesn't support that setting so it resets it every time.

Please explain "ICQ doesn't support that setting".

In the current 1.3.3 betas/rc, setting ICQ privacy to "Allow only contacts on my contact list" *DOES* work. When I manually set that, all the spim on ICQ immediately STOPS.

But if you quit Adium and re-launch it, the setting is lost.

That doesn't sound like ICQ doesn't support it. That sounds like perhaps Adium is loosing the setting across launches.

?

- Dan.

The icq servers afaik doesn't have a setting that works as allow only users in my list and it can't be emulated either like it can for msn. Setting allow only contacts on my contact list makes you invisible more or less and if you wanna stop most spam all you have to is to turn of web awareness in the icq account settings.

Dimmuxx wrote:The icq servers afaik doesn't have a setting that works as allow only users in my list and it can't be emulated either like it can for msn. Setting allow only contacts on my contact list makes you invisible more or less and if you wanna stop most spam all you have to is to turn of web awareness in the icq account settings.

Ok. So if ICQ does not have that privacy setting then Adium's interface should not offer it.

Already have the web awareness unchecked. Seems to have made no diff in the spim rate.

- Dan.

darmok wrote:Already have the web awareness unchecked. Seems to have made no diff in the spim rate.

Unchecking Web Awareness does help for most of the spam, but every now and then some spam is coming through, even with Adium set on "Only allow contacts on my contact list".
Fortunally, it isn't much, a few each month with strange, unreadable, messages.
I can live with that.

ICQ does have a 'allow only users on my contact list' feature http://www.icq.com/help/view_faq.php?faq_id=4423

Even if there is no server-side setting for it...is there a way for Adium to work around it on the client side, like any message coming from a UIN not in the contact list is automatically ignored by Adium?

I get spammed every day through ICQ and I have web awareness off

satoshi wrote:Even if there is no server-side setting for it...is there a way for Adium to work around it on the client side, like any message coming from a UIN not in the contact list is automatically ignored by Adium?

Of course, somebody just need to make the necessary code so feel free to do it.