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The default state on the MXit server when connecting is Available (with no status message), but Pidgin might be configured to remember the last presence state. So after login, if the presence is not Available or if a Status message has been set then we need to send a Status update packet to the MXit servers. Pidgin also use a HTML-style encoding for the status message. In the situation above they also need to be de-HTML'ified first.

For information on writing a plugin for Purple, Pidgin or Finch, go
http://developer.pidgin.im and click on API.  From there, see the
HOWTOs in the "Related Pages" section.

You can also generate this documentation locally by installing
doxygen and graphviz dot, then running "make docs" in the
source tree.  The documentation will be in the docs/html directory.