[Wocky] FW: Trouble with Jabber & Buddy lists between two versions of MacOS X

[Patrick M McNeal]

Has anyone seen this before, or have any idea of what might be going on?

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> From: Helen Rose <hrose at MIT.EDU>
> Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:22:56 -0400
> To: Patrick McNeal <mcneal at mit.edu>
> Subject: Trouble with Jabber & Buddy lists between two versions of MacOS X
>
> We've had several incidences of users who cannot add each other as
> buddies in iChat. It only seems to happen between people of different
> OS X versions (10.5.x vs 10.4.11); those on the same version can buddy
> each other without trouble, and someone who was on 10.4.11 and updates
> to 10.5 keeps the buddy list, and can continue to chat with people on
> 10.5 and 10.4.
>
> Person A invites Person B to be a buddy, and it says "waiting for
> authorization". As soon as Person B accepts, the status on Person A's
> iChat changes from Accepted to Not Authorized (while it looks
> authorized on Person B's computer). The cycle repeats.
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