cocoaforge

This issue was reported for 1.3.2 beta:

http://forums.cocoaforge.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=18497

but not fixed. Maybe ICQ does not have the respective distinctions, but at least MSN does have it. The problem did not occure in earlier versions of Adium. It is quite annoying because (since a few months) I constantly get chat-spam by people asking to look at their webcam or the like. In the previous Adium-version this could be prevented by making privacy-settings more restrictive. Now these settings are not kept across sessions (I guess they are not saved on the service-providers server). So at each new start of Adium it's back to default: exclude some (i.e. the blocked) contacts. Of course those spammers turn up with a different account each time, so there is not much use in blocking them ...

Best
Panca

PS: a workaround would also be appreciated. This really *is* annoying.

Well, to react to my own enquiry... I experimented a bit and found that Adium occasionally responds to an attempt to change 'server-side' privacy settings with the info-message that this feature is not supported. I haven't found out though, why it sometimes sends a message and sometimes not.

What I've done now, is to try and set the MSN-privacy settings through MS-Messenger. Hopefully it'll stick. Should be clear in a few days. For now it's quite ...

If you run the debug build you can clearly see if the server responds to your privacy setting or not.