Comment 4 for bug 480791

Note that the debug log doesn't even mention anything about ssl or certificates, at least when trying to connect to a jabber server that requires TLS. Just a generic "network error" message is given which seems to imply a TCP/IP problem. So no users will know that they have to go Edit -> Accounts -> Advanced -> "Ignore SSL certificate errors" unless they are psychic.

Also, if you go to google and start typing "empathy jabber", the only autocompletion that google gives is "empathy jabber network error", with 16,000 hits.

Anyway, the link to the upstream bug is https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=606535