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depends on the protocol you use.
AFAIK for ICQ, this is not yet implemented.

The lack of an "Ignore messages from people NOT on your contact list" is one of the reasons I dropped Kopete for Gaim. The only reason I have returned to Kopete is for the webcam support.

Rinse, if Kopete has this option for the other protocols other than ICQ, then where is it because I can not find it.

Where is the ignore feature in Kopete for Yahoo, Aim, and MSN to prevent receiving messages from users NOT on your contact list?

Thanks.

blackmorph,

This option will not be available until KDE version 4. After visiting #kopete on freenode and asking the question and being told it is a "lame" question and not needed I did some searching and found these two articles:

http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57234
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63839

So hang tight, it's coming!

Having wasted few hours looking at ICQ flood/spam, I spent 30 minutes watching the code.
To make kopete ignore ICQ/oscar messages from users not in contact list, you need to patch
protocols/oscar/oscaraccount.cpp and re-compile it.

That will be not configurable, i.e. permanent change.

Patch follows:


--- oscaraccount.cpp.orig Mon Jan 15 14:23:51 2007
+++ oscaraccount.cpp Tue Jul 3 15:05:25 2007
@@ -388,8 +388,9 @@
QString sender = Oscar::normalize( message.sender() );
if ( !contacts()[sender] )
{
- kdDebug(OSCAR_RAW_DEBUG) << "Adding '" << sender << "' as temporary contact" << endl;
- addContact( sender, QString::null, 0, Kopete::Account::Temporary );
+// Violet: ignore messages from anybody not in contact list
+ kdDebug(OSCAR_RAW_DEBUG) << "Ignoring message from '" << sender << endl;
+ return;
}

OscarContact* ocSender = static_cast<OscarContact *> ( contacts()[sender] ); //should exist now