Comment 147 for bug 304889

> And still not an Empathy issue. There is nothing to be done on Empathy
@hggdh2: With all due respect, I cannot agree with you.

Consider this (real!) scenario:
In my company, I use IM multi protocol client on Ubuntu. I need to have 4 accounts:
1. local (jabber) --> local intranet server1 [must use DIRECT http, must NOT use proxy]
2. gtalk (jabber) --> internet via http proxy [must use http via PROXY]
3. exchange (sipe) --> local intranet server2 [must use directly http, must NOT use proxy]
4. one more (gg) --> internet via http proxy [must use http via PROXY]

Obviously, this can be done only if IM client let's me to setup http_proxy per account. Empathy does not. It is missing this feature.
This is the reason, why I (and a lot of my colleagues in50 000+ employees company) are using Pidgin instead of Empathy which is the default Ubuntu IM client. Of course not all of employees are using Ubuntu, but all of them are potentially affected by this bug. Only in this one company. There are several others companies, campuses etc in similar situation.

Please also note, that many popular applications have builtin proxy settings (Firefox, Pidgin, ...).
It's not a critical feature for IM, but for multi communicator it's important.

Kind Regards,
Michal