Messages going offline when macbook is on sleep or shut

Hi,

Open Finder window

Use the GO Menu whilst holding down the ALT/Option key (⌥) and the select the Library that appears.

Navigate to Preferences.

Find com.apple.imagent.plist

Highlight this files and then use the CMD and i keys together (Get Info)

Scroll to the bottom.

Highlight your Account's short name in the list.

Unlock th padlock then use the cogwheel like icon underneath.

It should show the phrase "Make yourShortname (me) the Owner"

This should be greyed out if you Own the file.

You should also have Read and Write permissions.

This .plist is the one that holds the setting for "When I Quit..."

The other info about the Status change (or not) when coming back from Sleep of Screen Sleep is held in com.apple.iChat.plist itself.

Make sure you Own and have Read and Write permissions as well.

If you do own these and have the Read and Write permissions but it still does not change then do this:-

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT203538

This is because the path to Write to those files is via ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.ichat/Data/Library/Preferences and then Alias files that point to the Originals.

You need to own the Original files, the aliases, and all the folders that they are contained inside.

7:43 pm Wednesday; April 25, 2018

You can't receive off line messages. An Internet connection is required. When you wake the computer and the Internet connection is restored, any new messages should download.

Hi,

Found this dated 2008

http://googletalk.blogspot.co.uk/2006/11/offline-messages.html

However the links about Turning it on bring up a generic messages about GoogleTalk app for Windows has closed.

EDIT.

And this https://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/16281

Seems it was stopped and can't be fixed.

9:22 pm Wednesday; March 21, 2018

Hi,

Closing the lid puts the computer to Sleep.

This cuts the Internet connection

it's a normal function.

9:14 pm Thursday; March 15, 2018

Opps,

I had been talking about an iMessages account and had not picked up on the fact the App was running with just an Active Google Login.

I have been trying to remember if there was such a setting at Google (In the Googlemail Settings)

See here https://www.quora.com/Whats-the-difference-between-different-offline-chat-messag es-in-gmail

It appears at one time there was.

However it appears there is no such Setting now.

I then accessed the Google Account settings themselves and still found nothing.

Google Searches for "Does GoogleTalk Do Off Line Chat Messages" I did not find any clear info.

9:16 pm Wednesday; March 21, 2018

Hi,

I set up GoogleTalk when iChat 3 came out.

The app was already doing AIM chats and those did do Off Line Messaging with clear setting on how it was set up.

As GoogleTalk was a Jabber server it could depend if the server you joined was actually using the feature.

I have resisted Hangouts and other features from Google other than Mail.

As I said I seem to remember more settings in the Chat "page" of the Mail Setting when you login from a Web Browser.

For my reply above I was mainly searching for GoogleTalk info.

There may be some traction in what Eric says by either searching in any Hangouts FAQs or by contacting Google in some way like their forums.

7:32 pm Thursday; March 22, 2018

Hi,

If Registered devices cannot be reached the iMessages Server(s) keep trying until the iMessages are accepted.

It could be viewed that they are "Offline" messages as it appears that they are the same as the way AIM used to do things

The Server are continuing to "Push" the messages at the devices when there are some to Send.

Mail tends to work on your App fetching any email from those emails server you use.

The difference is that once the iMessages are accepted by the devices the item is deleted from the Servers.

This means new Devices cannot get older iMessages.

IMAP mail server require you Trash items you don't want. Until then any new device can Fetch the emails from the server.

7:29 pm Friday; March 16, 2018

Once you go back online and have an Internet connection, you should then receive any messages that have not previously downloaded. The reverse of what you posted.

From Ralph's post above.

"If Registered devices cannot be reached the iMessages Server(s) keep trying until the iMessages are accepted."

Understood.

7:25 pm Friday; March 23, 2018

I have exactly the same problem. iChat which is the same as Messages by 90% goes offline no matter what I've set in the Preferences: Set my status to offline upon quitting iChat is unselected as is Set my status to away if computer is inactive. The setting When I return and my status is away then set my status to present doesn't come into effect.

I use only Google accounts. iChat goes offline and does not resume to its active status no matter if these settings are active or not. For some reason even when I'm working at my Mac one or all of my Google accounts are randomly showed as "switched off" or smth along the lines of this wording. What gives?

Thank you. I, however, meant it to contain one explicit point:

iChat which is the same as Messages by 90% goes offline no matter what I've set in the Preferences: Set my status to offline upon quitting iChat is unselected as is Set my status to away if computer is inactive. The setting When I return and my status is away then set my status to present doesn't come into effect after I wake up the computer and it's connected to Internet.