[Opensim-dev] Question on What is meant to happen with Offline IMs between Hypergrid Connected Grids

[Tom Frost]

On Mon, Dec 07, 2015 at 09:40:31AM +0000, Ai Austin wrote:
> BUT... if a sender on one grid tries to send an IM to a foreign grid
> recipient is not online and on their home grid at the time a message
> is sent, its NOT stored for later delivery.  Instead the sender gets
> the message
> 
>      (busy response): Unable to send instant message. User is not logged in.
> 
> Would we expect that to work and its a bug if it does not.... or
> should it be made to work one day by using the offline IM mechanism
> in the sender or receiver grids to pas it over to await the
> recipient coming online?

In addition, I find that when both users are online, but not on their
home grid, IM often fails with that same message. That's just a hunch
though and I can't substantiate that claim with extensive test results.

There's all kinds of corner-cases like that. I've been meaning to try
and find out what combinations do and don't work, perhaps it would be
good to do this in a structured way. I have an inkling that there's more
involved than just being on a foreign grid or not, the settings of the
particular grids users are on seem to have something to do with it too.
That is, sometimes, IM's do work when both users are on a foreign grid,
but given another set of foreign grids it won't work..

- Tom