Original von seb
Afaik, you have to set your away settings from the kopete toolbar (the smiley face) to Set Away Globally. you wont get an auto message if you set your protocol to away.
Nb: you will be set to away for your protocol if you enable global away settings.
Yes, I am using Set Away Globally. (I've tried both through the toolbar and the File menu, but I assume they both do the same thing.) I do show up as having status Away in other people's buddy lists, even with the right status message in the list (eg. in iChat), but if someone tries to start a chat anyway, no auto-response is printed in their chat window. Other AIM clients will print the auto-response as if I'd typed it in the chat window. (Note that I'm using an AIM screename; I don't know if that matters.)
Anyway, thanks for your comments so far. It sounds like other people have this working (?), so maybe there's just something wrong with my configuration? Can someone confirm that Kopete will auto-respond to AIM chat requests if you go into an away status?
Charlie