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isamert / scli

a simple terminal user interface for signal messenger (using signal-cli)
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Support username-only contacts #224

Open benjaminbhollon opened 3 months ago

benjaminbhollon commented 3 months ago

None of my contacts I know the username of but not the phone number show up in scli. I can receive messages from them but they show up as UNKNOWN CONTACT and I can't send messages.

signal-cli itself supports those contacts, so my guess is that scli identifies contacts by phone number instead of the ACI signal-cli lists?

exquo commented 3 months ago

This is a real problem! It is caused by signal-cli's DBus methods not listing the "UUID-only" contacts (upstream issue). To resolve this, either signal-cli would have to make the necessary modifications to its DBus interface, or scli will need to switch to using another interface, e.g. signal-cli's JSON-RPC (a feature request already exists). The fixes to signal-cli's DBus issues have not been forthcoming for a while now. So scli will likely need to transition to using JSON-RPC instead. I can't put an ETA on it yet, as it'll entail replacing large chunks of existing code; but the current issue, along with the other dbus-caused blockers for scli, will put it high on the list of priorities. In the short term I'll try to make workarounds, at least for sending messages to UNKNOWN CONTACTs.

benjaminbhollon commented 3 months ago

Ah, I wasn't aware there was an upstream component to this. That makes sense.