Pidgin: ICQ Status not visible for others

[Alexander Kallenbach]

Binary package hint: pidgin

My Buddys can't see that I'm online. I can see their right status and chat with them. But for them I stay invisible. I doesn't matter on what I set the status.
They can as well send me messages and see my avatar.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
Package: pidgin 1:2.5.5-1ubuntu8.1
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: pidgin
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic i686

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

thank you for your bug report, not confirming the issue, maybe they didn't request authorization to add you to their list correctly or you changed an option

[Alexander Kallenbach (kallenbachalex)]

I've tested it with a second PC and another ICQ account (Ubuntu 9.04, Empathy as ICQ-Client). I've added the account in question, but it stayed invisible. Like my buddys reported messaging is possible, avatar is visible. Just the status isn't shown correctly.

[Alexander Kallenbach (kallenbachalex)]

It seems to be a problem of empathy. Users who are using the original icq-client can see me. I will post a new bug report against empathy.

[Johannes (o-launchpad-spam-slzm-de)]

I can confirm this on a pidgin-pidgin basis. I can't see a Windows user who can see me. The authorization can hardly be the problem. It works smoothly with others using Miranda, the original ICQ client, Kopete and so on :(.

[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu. Ubuntu 9.04 reached EOL on 2010-10-23.
Please see this document for currently supported Ubuntu releases:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

Please upgrade and test to see if this has been resolved in the latest versions.

Please feel free to report any other bugs you may find.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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