# Table of contents:

• Introduction
• Client/Request
• Server/Response
• Examples
  • User quit manually
  • User timed out
  • Invalid context
• Known changes

# Introduction

BYE is a command introduced with MSNP2.

It is a Switchboard Server command, without a response payload.

Used when a client leaves the current switchboard session.

# Client/Request

This client can not be sent from the client.

# Server/Response

BYE user-handle {timeout}

Where user-handle is the parting user's handle.

Where timeout is 1 if the server disconnected this user automatically. This parameter is optional.

# Examples

# User quit manually

S: BYE anotheruser@hotmail.com

# User timed out

S: BYE anotheruser@hotmail.com 1

# Invalid context

Inherited from being an unimplemented command.

C: BYE 1

Server disconnects client.

# Known changes

None.