Comment 5 for bug 176436

The behaviour is independent of the Pidgin plugin. All the permutations (installed or not, pic or not) all work (chat and email) if there's no picture on the Evolution contact. With a picture I can't email but I can chat if Pidgin's plugin is installed.
I've been linking both pictures to a local file. I'm not sure how to embed them. It doesn't matter if both pictures are the same.