Empathy does not show inactive MSN users who are online

[Julian Lam]

Binary package hint: empathy

Specifically, I am talking about the MSN accounts

Expected behaviour: Users who are idle or inactive should show up on the Empathy contact list as online (or idle).

Encountered behaviour: Idle or inactive users are shown as offline.

Note: This is not to be confused with users marked as away, just idle users.

This bug can be reproduced at will:
1. Log into MSN Messenger/Meebo, and find an inactive (but online!) user. Remember his/her name.
2. Log into empathy, and note that that user is not listed as online, but offline.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: empathy 2.30.2-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-24.39-generic 2.6.32.15+drm33.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-24-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Aug 17 10:52:26 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: empathy

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

I don't have such issue on Maverick version.

[Brian Curtis (bcurtiswx)]

Thanks for your bug report and helping to make ubuntu better. This bug is a duplicate of bug #599312 which is a bug with telepathy-butterfly. I am marking as such.