Anomalous AIM Activity Afflicts Adium, Aggravating All

Adium has bricked two of my AIM accounts in the recent past.
It changed my password without my knowledge. All of a sudden I can't sign in anymore. Says my password is incorrect.

Needless to say I've ditched Adium and haven't went back.

I was having the same problem with both Adium AND iChat, but I found several fixes that have worked for me. First of all, if you're using AIM for iPhone or iPod touch, the default is for it to remain logged in for 24 hours when you exit the app so AIM seems to be having a problem deciding which program gets priority (Adium or AIM for iPhone) so if you're invisible on one, sometimes you're invisible on both whether you list yourself as available or not on Adium. Just go into preferences on the AIM app and switch it to log off "immediately" and that should do the trick. If you want to keep it logged in for push notifications go into your iChat preferences (not Adium) and set up that you do not want multiple log-ins under account settings. Note you must take your account offline to change this option. The reason you need to go into iChat is because Adium doesn't seem to offer this setting change. If you're still having problems, again, go into iChat and charge your port settings to 443 and you should be good to go.

FYI, there's this ticket http://trac.adium.im/ticket/13085 which *should* be fixed in the latest stable and beta releases (1.3.7 and 1.4b12 respectively).

Feedback if that's the actual bug or not and whether it's actually fixed or not is appreciated.

I've had this problem on and off in the past week or so. I had another strange issue on Adium as well, I set my AIM up so that only contacts on my contact list can send me messages. I've set this privacy setting up with both iChat and Adium. For about 3-4 months I've been been receiving random messages from people who are not on my contact list. Then when I look at my privacy settings in Adium, it reverts to "Block only certain contacts" or "Allow anyone." I of course change it back to "Allow only those on contact list" but some how it reverts back. I also use the AIM app on my iPhone, but I really doubt that is the problem. Occasionally I'd also be unable to see people on my contact list along with this problem and have repeated the same steps as people have posted here to fix that. I just don't want to deal with random people messaging me out of the blue and no way to fix this problem. :(

I had this problem yesterday, but I do not have AIM, i use my google talk account, and only one person showed up as online (and away), all other people were shown as offline (not the real scenario).

Sounds like a weird bug - snow leopard related? it was working fine last week....

This is also an issue with Google Talk on Adium. My friends would think I was offline, and then I would say something to them, and they'd say I'm marked as offline.

I've also had this problem in iChat so it seems more like an AIM server problem. I appeared offline or invisible to my Mom while my son had no problem seeing me. Of course, he was testing it on the same intranet as me.

I found a situation when I had TOO many people on my buddy list... I pruned my list and suddenly I was online, my buddy list appeared, and I wasn't invisible.

Oh and btw, this issue got WORSE when I upgraded to Snow Leopard.

Ive had the same issue for some time now, but only when I'm at home. And thats when I realized that it was some how related to my computer constantly disconnecting and reconnecting to my router (even though it appears to stay connected through the whole ordeal). My temporarty solution has been to use an ethernet cable directly into my laptop, instead of using airport when Im at home.

I also use my laptop on the wireless at work and it has no issues there.

:/