“The server thinks the ICQ client you are using is too old”

Somehow AOL doesn’t brighten up my day. In fact, making me angry would describe it way better. As I am using Linux, I am trying to avoid proprietary software – that’s why you won’t find me that often using Skype. The Instant messenger of my choice would be Jabber, but as my contacts don’t use it, I have to use ICQ. My Client here is Kopete.

AOL now did a protocol bump for eliminating old clients, for pushing the ICQ6 protocol, regarding the error message and the Bugreport here.

However, this is quite nasty and I guess you don’t want to read rantings, you might want to see a solution – here it is. Add the following lines to your ~/.kde/share/config/kopeterc and should be able to connect again:

[ICQVersion]
Build=0x17AB
ClientId=0x010A
ClientString=ICQ Client
Country=us
Lang=en
Major=0x0006
Minor=0x0000
Other=0x00007535
Point=0x0000