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Phalkon

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Registered: 2014-10-19

Posts: 117

Pidgin XMPP spam

I have jabber account on pidgin with privacy settings to only receive messages from people in my contact list.

Nevertheless I keep getting these:
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Both windows always appear together. One XMPP Error Message and one message.

Contacts and content of these messages varies, but they're usually russian.

How come I keep getting those when my privacy settings are set to block anything that doesn't come from my contacts?
And why do they come with these error messages? Has anybody encountered this before?

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mpan

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Registered: 2012-08-01

Posts: 1,205

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Re: Pidgin XMPP spam

Report the bug upstream. My wild guess is that Pidgin’s error dialogs don’t take into account privacy settings and don’t filter out error messages that are obviously spoofed.

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x33a

Forum Fellow

Registered: 2009-08-15

Posts: 4,587

Re: Pidgin XMPP spam

From what I can understand, pidgin only supports XEP-0191, which only seems to support per user blocking. Pidgin's privacy settings depend on the protocol you use.

Moving to "Applications and Desktop Environments".

wvmmhxkh

Member

Registered: 2016-02-11

Posts: 1

Re: Pidgin XMPP spam

if there more info on this? russian spammers are getting on my nerves

R00KIE

Forum Fellow

From: Between a computer and a chair

Registered: 2008-09-14

Posts: 4,734

Re: Pidgin XMPP spam

No necro-bumping please.

Closing.

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