799036 - AOL AIM and ICQ support for thunderbird chat (oscar)

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Chat Core :: General, defect)

Description

[Ruben]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:15.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/15.0.1
Build ID: 20120907231657




Expected results:

Please add AIM support, or is there a work-around to route aim and ICQ accounts through XMPP?

Comment 1

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

There is currently a addon being developed to provide libpurple support and support for those protocol, have a look on addons.mozilla.org

Comment 2

[Florian Quèze [:florian]]

The add-on for this has been released at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/additional-chat-protocols/

There's no plan to integrate this by default in a future version of Thunderbird because the licensing of a library used in the add-on is incompatible with the license used to ship Mozilla products.

Comment 3

[Patrick Cloke [:clokep]]

I disagree with WONTFIXing this. We cannot integrate this add-on, but (theoretically) someone could add native support for oscar (used by AIM/ICQ) to support this. By the reasoning that there is an add-on, we could also WONTFIX bug 366343, which I don't think is reasonable.

Comment 4

[Florian Quèze [:florian]]

I didn't WONTFIX the bug, but I think the reasoning here is "realistically, nobody is going to spend time on this to implement it" so we don't want to give false hopes; which seems reasonable to me.

The add-on doesn't justify the wontfix resolution. I pointed to it as an answer to "is there a work-around to route aim and ICQ accounts through XMPP?".

And when I said "There's no plan to integrate this by default" 'this' referred to the add-on. Sorry for the confusing.

Comment 5

[Patrick Cloke [:clokep]]

Attachment: WIP v1

A WIP, this connects and receives a successful authentication from an AOL server.

Comment 6

[Patrick Cloke [:clokep]]

It seems that the AOL BOS servers use a cert for the host bos.oscar.aol.com, but we would connect to them via an IP address provided by the server.

(Note that bos.oscar.aol.com doesn't even resolved.)

Current progress is being made by not connecting via SSL, but that wouldn't be appropriate to land.

Comment 7

[Ruben]

The add-on for this https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/additional-chat-protocols/ seems to make some problems in the new TB 24 now. If you had this installed and now that it is not compatible anymore, you still have the changes in your addressbook, which cannot be undone. not even if you remove that addon. How can I restore the original addressbook?

Comment 8

[Patrick Cloke [:clokep]]

(In reply to Ruben from comment #7)
> The add-on for this
> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/additional-chat-protocols/
> seems to make some problems in the new TB 24 now. If you had this installed
> and now that it is not compatible anymore, you still have the changes in
> your addressbook, which cannot be undone. not even if you remove that addon.
> How can I restore the original addressbook?

This has nothing to do with this bug, please file a new one if there's a bug when uninstalling that extension.

Comment 9

[Ruben]

What is the flag "Version" for? I think it makes sense to set this to the latest stable release, where the bug is still active (version 24)

Comment 10

[Jim Porter (:squib)]

(In reply to Ruben from comment #9)
> What is the flag "Version" for? I think it makes sense to set this to the
> latest stable release, where the bug is still active (version 24)

The version number isn't usually used in Thunderbird bugs except to track when a fixed bug has landed. Otherwise, it mostly just refers to when it was filed, but I don't think most people pay attention to it for non-fixed bugs.

Comment 11

[Patrick Cloke [:clokep]]

AIM is shutting down on December 15, 2017 [1], so there's no point in continuing work on this.

[1] https://help.aol.com/articles/aim-discontinued