Pork not displaying offline messages

[riderplus]

I'm on openSUSE 11.4 and use pork 0.99.8.1 for AIM. The problem is that everytime someone sends an offline message to me, the message itself is not displayed, I just get a notification that I received an offline message

<buddy_who_sent_offline_message>[Offline IM sent 2m ago]

and from <AOL System Msg>

You just received 1 IM(s) while you were offline.
 If you do not wish to receive offline messages, please go to IM
 Settings (URL of AIM settings)

. Neither am I able to send messages to a buddy that is offline, I get an error message that tells me how my message wasn't sent because the user whom I sent the message to was not logged in.
I use pork because I don't have any other troubles with the application, but I would like to find a solution to the above issue. Thank you!

[Rubberman]

Have you tried Pidgin for an IM client?

[riderplus]

Have you tried Pidgin for an IM client?

Yes. I just prefer command line applications, they're way faster than GUI ones, and pork is almost perfect, even though it's old.
As an alternative to pidgin I use finch.