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+ ICQ protocol plugin for Miranda IM (Joe)
+ ________________________________________
+
+
+About
+_____
+
+This Miranda IM plugin makes it possible to connect to the ICQ
+instant messenger network and communicate with other ICQ users.
+
+
+Known Problems
+______________
+
+- In Invisible mode, when other side is not in visible list messages are sometimes
+ received twice from some clients (it is a problem of that clients, they do send them
+ twice)
+
+- In Invisible mode, when other side is not in visible list messages are not unicode
+ aware. This is because ICQ protocol does not support unicode offline messages.
+ You can partly solve this by setting proper codepage for the contact - database setting
+ WORD "CodePage" in ICQ scope
+
+- When synchronising server-list, users get added with await auth flag or receive added
+ message. The way which ICQ servers handle authorisations, we cannot do it better - when
+ uploading contacts to server account has to be a new one, then contacts can be added
+ and uploaded without auth... If the account is an old one they cannot be added without
+ auth if they require one. So they are added with flag awaiting auth. With the new
+ Manage server list contacts added contacts should never receive auth requests, but
+ if you have an old account they can receive added notification.
+
+
+TO-DO List
+__________
+
+0.3.9
+ Manage server-list dialog now groups requests - much faster
+ Full support for sub-groups in Manage server-list dialog
+ Real Level 1 rate management (will solve multi-recipient message problems)
+ AIM file transfers (OFT) - like icq5 (including transfer thru server)
+
+0.5
+ Account management (together with Miranda core changes)
+ Multi-user chat (Xtraz based)
+
+
+
+Changes
+_______
+
+0.3.6
+
+Bugfixes:
+ Our own contact in list now correctly handles events
+ Proxy Gateway mode is working again
+ File receiving from Trillian clients work again
+ Incorporated some bugfixes from ISee (thx Bio)
+ Message errors are now really displayed
+ Fixed memory leak in avatar code
+ File transfers with GnomeICU works now
+ Fixed changing password in ICQ Details will not save it to DB if not there
+ Fixed PING channel handling (caused connection drop)
+ Fixed bug in changeinfo with translated listbox values (thx Bio)
+ Fixed error handling in avatar code for uploading avatar
+ Fixed bug in Manage-Server list dialog, caused hang
+ Fixed occasional losing of messages (message parsing was incomplete)
+ Server-list management now stores all info - solves problems
+
+New Features:
+ Messaging support enhanced (P2P messaging supported)
+ Direct Connection support rewritten (with P2P messaging and reverse file-transfers)
+ Temporary Visible List support
+ New Features page in options to configure extra features
+ Custom statuses just like icq5 - needs clist_mw derivative (thx Big Muscle)
+ New custom status icons (thx Angeli-ka)
+ Enhanced Unicode & Ansi charsets support (each contact can have its own codepage)
+ AIM cross-compatability (add/remove, search by mail, status, messaging, away messages)
+ Secure MD5 login authentification
+ Revoke authorization (Advanced Feature - see further) - removes you from contact's server-list
+
+Improvements:
+ Advanced search now can use newer method (thx Bio)
+ Better protocol error handling
+ Slightly better avatar handling
+ Detects some spam bots & ability to block known spam bots
+ Merged with ChangeInfo (thx Bio)
+ Added possibility to remember password for session
+ Added possibility to retrieve away message from libgaim clients
+ Added status to UserInfo page
+ Small improvements to client detection
+ Uses newer capabilities format (cuts incoming traffic)
+ Display error messages using PopUp Plugin
+ Support for Iconlib Plugin
+ Support for unicode database module (clist data)
+ Level 2 Rate management for Status & Xtraz replies, Xtraz requests (useful with many contaccts in list)
+ Full unicode/ansi support (2in1)
+ Support for Updater Plugin
+
+
+0.3.5.2
+
+Bugfixes:
+ Error checking on offline messages was not working
+ Now correctly handles "import time" item (should solve some auth issues)
+
+
+0.3.5.1
+
+Bugfixes:
+ Renaming of server groups was not working properly - caused errors
+ Avatar could not be deleted (the delete button did not work)
+ File Transfers were not working properly in some cases (wrong cookie handling)
+ Avatar formats were not recognized correctly
+ Method of determining target dir in file receive was not solid enough
+ Manage server-list dialog leaked memory
+ Synchronize visibility items was not working properly
+ Our avatar image was not linked to our ContactPhoto
+ Added workaround for DB Blob caching issues
+ Fixed occasional crash on login (missing TLV validity checks)
+ Fixed slow update of nicks when users imported from server-list
+ Fixed auto info update mechanism, do not progress too fast, do not drop processing
+ Fixed empty groups are always hidden in Manage Server List, cannot be used either
+ Fixed occasional crash on avatar retrieval - limit size of image to the size of packet
+ If our rate is high, ignore user requests for status msgs & user details (prevents disconnection)
+ Added temporary solution for roughly translated ICQ 2003b russian
+ Manage server-list dialog could display other contacts and could crash
+ Basic search could search for bad uin - garbage can be in the string
+ Added workaround for select() malfunction - caused high CPU load
+
+Improvements:
+ If Update details from server is on, user groups are also updated
+ Changed System Uptime to Member since in my details
+ Auth system recognizes & sends UTF-8 messages
+ Miranda version signature improved (preparing for old signature removal in the future)
+ Added better error detection for offline msgs receival process
+ Made avatar handling more resilient to server errors
+
+
+0.3.5
+
+Bugfixes:
+ Server-list operations is now scheduled correctly
+ Newly added contact with privacy setting is not hidden anymore
+ Fixed unicode message receiving from Icq2Go! (messages were corrupted)
+ Fixed Grant authorisation - not showed correctly and crashing randomly
+ Move to group was not working properly
+ On accept/decline filetransfer miranda was sometimes disconnected
+ Group with subgroups was deleted if empty, that messed up subgroups
+ Newly added contacts from server sometimes missed their group
+ Offline messages are no longer received older than existing ones
+ Now will not try to add contacts to server, which are not ours
+ Divided server ids to groups - caused strange behaviour if id and group id were same
+ Other small fixes
+
+New features:
+ Added avatar tab to user-details dialog to show avatar even without mToolTip
+ Linking avatar to mToolTip is now optional
+ My user-details now show more informations & added idle since to ICQ tab
+ Added support for uploading your own avatar image
+
+Improvements:
+ Rewritten Manage Server List dialog - now works perfectly (without sub-groups support)
+ Added partial support for subgroups (supported: rename, move, parial: add)
+ Added optional linking to mToolTip, link only if no image set
+ Added workaround for QNext client (it is not capable of type2 msgs)
+ Added option to turn off HTTP gateway on HTTP proxy
+
+
+0.3.4.2 (not published)
+
+Bugfixes:
+ Fixed authorisation reply
+ Fixed contact transfer ack
+ Now parses URL send ack correctly, no more timeout
+ Now sending ack on contacts receive
+ Now correctly add contact without auth if they does not require it
+ Fixed crash on receiving long message through P2P (very old bug)
+ Many other fixes (see CVS changelog for details)
+
+New features:
+ Added full unicode message support (requires SRMM Unicode)
+ Added support for sending and receiving Idle time.
+ Added reliable client identification (if not identified, gives appropriate ICQ client)
+ Added support for avatar images (downloading only).
+ Added Grant authorisation option (send & recognize)
+
+Improvements:
+ Server-side list support rewritten, now uses acking, partly supports groups (without sub-groups for now).
+ Most cookies standardised to imitate icq5 behaviour
+ Basic search now automatically removes garbage from text, e.g. it can search by 123-456-789
+
+
+0.3.3.1
+
+Bugfixes:
+ Could crash when receiving unicode messages.
+
+
+0.3.3
+
+Bugfixes:
+ Failed to send or receive files from ICQ 2003b.
+ Fixed a number of smaller memory leaks.
+ Contact e-mail info was not displayed correctly.
+ Failed to retrieve user details during certain circumstances.
+ URL messages could disappear when sent through a Direct Connection.
+ Nick name was not deleted from server list when local nick name was deleted.
+ Server side contacts could reappear after being deleted if they were on the
+ visible/invisible lists.
+ Changing status while connecting had no effect.
+ A bunch of other fixes that are too boring to list here, have a look at
+ the CVS changelog if you want the big list.
+
+New features:
+ Added support for sending and receiving Typing Notifications.
+ Now accepts messages formatted in unicode (note: this wont solve the problem
+ with displaying messages with multiple charsets).
+
+Improvements:
+ Uses plugin DLL name in various menus to make it easier to have several ICQ
+ plugins loaded.
+ More robust packet parsing reduces the risk of any future stability problems.
+
+
+0.3.2
+
+Bugfixes:
+ Prevent your status messages being read when you are invisible.
+ Small memory leak when sending an SMS.
+ Fixed a dumb bug that caused random disconnections from the ICQ server.
+ Cleaned up the code for searches and user info updates, should work better now.
+ AIM users in your server contact list would get added locally with uin 0.
+
+New features:
+ Added "missed message" notification.
+
+Improvements:
+ Added better error messages for message send failures.
+ Messages now default to the most reliable delivery method available for a given contact.
+
+
+0.3.1
+
+Bugfixes:
+ Fixed crash when incoming file transfer was cancelled before the transfer started
+ Failed to receive SMS messages sent while offline
+ Fixed some problems with accepting file transfers from Mirabilis clients
+ Increased thread safety to reduce some reported connection/disconnection problems
+ Fixed compability problems with sending messages to some jabber clients
+ Fixed some message compability problems with Trillian
+ Corrected some ack sending
+ Added a lot of safety checks to increase general stability
+ Plugin didnt load unless winsocks2 was installed
+
+New features:
+ Removed restrictions on UIN length for better compability with iserverd
+ The password can now be left empty in options, it will be asked for during login
+ Server port can now be left empty in options, a random port will be selected during login
+ Show logged on since and system uptime info in ICQ tab
+
+Improvements:
+ Reduced file size
+ Message sending now uses a more reliable delivery method
+
+
+
+Support and bug reporting
+_________________________
+
+We cannot give support on e-mail or ICQ. Please visit the Miranda IM help page at
+http://www.miranda-im.org/help/ if you need help with this plugin.
+
+If the help page does answer your question, visit the Miranda support forum at:
+http://forums.miranda-im.org/ and we will try to assist you.
+
+If you want to report a bug, please do so in the official bugtracker at:
+http://bugs.miranda-im.org/
+
+
+
+Contact
+_______
+
+Current maintainer is Joe @ Whale, jokusoftware at users.sourceforge.net
+ Martin Öberg, strickz at miranda-im.org
+
+
+
+Advanced Features
+_________________
+
+There are some features that are not widely used so there is no UI for them, if
+you want to use them you need to do manual setup using DBE++.
+
+Database items (usually at Contact\ICQ):
+(BYTE)UnicodeSend = 0 - to Disable unicode support (useful as a workaround for Trillian's bug)
+
+(WORD)CodePage - codepage for plain text encoding/decoding to/from unicode
+
+(WORD)InfoCodePage - codepage for interpreting user details
+
+Database items for Main Contact (usually at Settings\ICQ):
+(BYTE)InfoUpdate - Threshold in DAYS for updating user info (restart is needed) - default is 14 days
+
+(BYTE)PrivacyItems = 1 - adds more privacy tools to contact menu
+
+
+
+Credits and Thanks
+__________________
+
+Thanks to Angeli-Ka for nice custom status icons.
+
+
+
+License and Copyright
+_____________________
+
+Copyright (C) 2000-2006 Joe Kucera, Martin Öberg, Richard Hughes, Jon Keating
+
+This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
+as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
+of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+
+This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+GNU General Public License for more details.
+
+You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
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