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Start watching the listener socket immediately after it's created instead of waiting until we receive confirmation from the other side that they've established a TCP connection to us. This fixes a bug where sending a file from Trillian to Pidgin would fail if the Trillian user was behind a firewall. Fixes #2976. Huge thanks to Kyryll A Mirnenko aka Mirya for basically tracking this down.

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.