Comment 15 for bug 409546

I got the same Problem which is very annoying. I don't use the Pidgin chat plugin that much because i'm not able to send messages to all my contacts. Now that Chris pointed out, that the plugin refreshes the status of every user in the list it's obvious that it may take a while and i'm not able to contact offline buddies. But consider a possibility or an option in the plugin to avoid the reindexing which would have two upsides for me since it would speed up the process and i would be able to contact offline buddies.
Given the fact that most IM protocols allow offline messages (at least the ones i use like ICQ and Jabber) this would be a nice to have.