[Serusers] Messenger - Delay to see contact status

Klaus Darilion klaus.mailinglists at pernau.at
Fri Mar 12 13:32:59 CET 2004


This behaviour is caused by Messenger - you can't do anything to avoid 
this - ser can't change this! It's just a bad implemenation in Messenger 
that they check the status every 10 minutes (or 5minutes?)

Klaus



Mark wrote:

> Hello:
> 
> I've installed SER in a linux box, Windows Messenger 4.7 in 2 Win XP boxes 
> and MSN Messenger 4.6 in a Win NT, my objective is to deploy a local network 
> IM system.
> 
> I have created 3 users with
> 
>   serctl add <user> <password> <email>:
> 
> mike
> mark
> john
> 
> Authentication is mysql based, and it works fine.
> 
> In Windows Messenger, Mike has added Mark and John as contacts. Mark has 
> added Mike and John.
> In MSN Messenger, John has added Mark and Mike as contacts.
> 
> My problem is: when a user (Mark) initiates a session, he can see correctly 
> all contacts and the real state of these contacts (online, offline, ...).
> 
> But the online contacts can't see Mark online until some minutes: after this 
> delay (from a few seconds to some minutes), online contacts receive a 
> notification like "Mark initiates session".
> 
> Users that log in can see real contact status. But these contacts can't see 
> this login until some time.
> 
> Is there a way to reduce this delay?. I've played with some values like 
> registrar default expires, usrloc timer_interval, ... without success.
> 
> Thank you,
> Mark
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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