I'm pleased to announce the official release of the Offline Messenger 2 public beta.

Enjoy the ability to send messages to your buddies while they're offline! And the best part of it all is that the messages will be delivered automatically once they sign in, even if you're not online anymore. So? What are you waiting for? Start OMing your friends now!

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Thanks for notifying us. I've been waiting to try this.

Thanks noroom, great work!

Doesn't PLUS have this built in as SET COMEBACK MESSAGE?

I use that one...

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Originally posted by alebowgm
Doesn't PLUS have this built in as SET COMEBACK MESSAGE?

I use that one...

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Thanks for helping to clear that up monster.rat

Woot great news...

*TD tests it on his friends

I reccomend this bot to everyone! its great! just try it

I had fun testing it out, good to see it released

And just for everyone who was complaining about Msn not adding the offline messaging feature...this is adzactly what this bot does, so what are you waiting for, add it to your contact list now!

btw noroom, are the forums down? I can't seem to access them...

Edit: Just saw the news g/l trying to get everything back up and running

yeah goodluck getting it back up, i added the bot but its not appear yet

hmm looks good. I will try this
thanks for finding it

Well done noroom this looks really good

Well guys its running now, noroom and psyko are fixing a few bugs, hopefully it'll be fine now

Sounds great, just one but/question:
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Cool... And how do I know when I receive an OM?
The bot that has a message for you will add you to his list, so he knows when you sign in. Once you sign in, you should allow the bot into your list. You don't have to add him to your list if you don't want to, you just have to allow the bot to see your status and send you messages. Once you've done this, the bot will contact you, delivering all your messages.
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Lots of people do not accept people they don't know on their list anymore (me included), is the name of the bot that clear that the person you send a message to will recognize this?

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Originally posted by Sunshine
is the name of the bot that clear that the person you send a message to will recognize this?

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jeez, if i wasnt banned from msnfanatic i would report a couple of things...

1. after you send a the '.menu' command, and the menu is recieved. for a while after, it gives the user is typing message..

2. well here is the story, i sent a message to my other email, so i used polygamy, and logged in

What Happened:
logged in
wait...
offline messenger bot added me
wait....
beep
messenger closed by itself..
open again in polygamy
sign in
nothing happens no track of message..
so on my other account i send myself a message again.
(by this time im using .menu on the 2nd account)
and i get the 2nd message..
no track of the first

really cool feature

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Originally posted by Stigmata
jeez, if i wasnt banned from msnfanatic i would report a couple of things...

1. after you send a the '.menu' command, and the menu is recieved. for a while after, it gives the user is typing message..

2. well here is the story, i sent a message to my other email, so i used polygamy, and logged in

What Happened:
logged in
wait...
offline messenger bot added me
wait....
beep
messenger closed by itself..
open again in polygamy
sign in
nothing happens no track of message..
so on my other account i send myself a message again.
(by this time im using .menu on the 2nd account)
and i get the 2nd message..
no track of the first

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Yay... So basically this is e-mail being reinvented, only this is slightly more complex/unreliable because you're depending on some sort of Messenger bot to be online to deliver the message instead of the recipient's ISP (providing that he's using an ISP e-mail address)... Seriously, what's so horrible about leaving e-mails for offline contacts? If the problem is waiting for Hotmail to load, then get a pop3 account...

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Originally posted by Stigmata
1. after you send a the '.menu' command, and the menu is recieved. for a while after, it gives the user is typing message..

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Originally posted by Stigmata
2. well here is the story, i sent a message to my other email, so i used polygamy, and logged in

What Happened:
logged in
wait...
offline messenger bot added me
wait....
beep
messenger closed by itself..
open again in polygamy
sign in
nothing happens no track of message..
so on my other account i send myself a message again.
(by this time im using .menu on the 2nd account)
and i get the 2nd message..
no track of the first

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The first problem we encountered is that the response was so huge that the protocol started to mess up and we were getting commands in a different order. Also, MSN has a limit for the allow list, even though it's not a fixed value (like the contact list, limit set at 300). The allow list will start acting weird and returning errors at about 1000 contacts.
Of course we had no idea this would happen when we tried it with our beta testing team that consited of 20 people.

About the typing notification: It's there to prevent the session from being closed if you don't say anything for a few minutes. I put it there because if you were to say something to the bot after a certain idle time, the session would be restarted and the bot would send you the welcome message again. Some people found this very annoying and thought the TypingNotification was a cool workaround.

About people not allowing OM on their lists: Well, it's their coice. If they do not wish to use the service, they can block the bots.

About some messages not being delivered: We are running heavy debugging on both, the bot and the protocol engine. Some messages have gotten lost in the middle. We moved the project to a debugging server too, so that made the bots lose a fair amount of messages.

About the service not being reliable: It's a beta. You don't have to use it if you don't want to. Email being reinvented? We like to call it an alternative to email. Imagine a world without alternatives. Not pretty.

yeah it was good for the 10 minutes i had using it

To update everyone - Offmsgr1 - 3 @hotmail.com are dead. Something f*cked them up and now we have to close them. Please visit http://www.offlinemessenger.com to find another mirror to use. Make sure to use the mirror with the lowest amount of load, thank you!

Thanks for the update psyko

Thanks Psycho, i've been waiting to use it again after it went down.

Not a problem guys!