[Serusers] Messenger - Delay to see contact status

Jiri Kuthan jiri at iptel.org
Fri Mar 12 23:54:31 CET 2004


That's related to Messenger's presence model. It is based on polling rather
than asynchronous communication. Status update is as fast as polling
interval (10 minutes or so I guess).

-jiri

At 11:33 AM 3/12/2004, 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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