Blocked contacts "forgotten" in between invocations of the program

[johnmudd]

Empathy has a problem with not blocking "blocked" contacts. So I verified that the spam users were on my "blocked" contact list. Since blocking is not working I shut down Empathy and restarted it thinking this might be necessary to put the current "blocked" contacts into effect. It didn't help. I checked the "blocked" contact list again and found all but two of the "blocked" contacts had been removed from the list.

FYI: This is apparently not why the blocking is not working. Even users still on my "blocked" contact list are able to send me new messages.

FWIW, https://www.meebo.com/messenger has no problem blocking these same yahoo IM spam users. I'm not suggesting meebo is full featured substitute for Empathy. I'm just pointing out that blocking contacts is doable.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: empathy 3.2.0.1-0ubuntu1.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-17.30-generic-pae 3.0.22
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-17-generic-pae i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Apr 6 09:10:40 2012
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/empathy
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release i386 (20111012)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: empathy
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Bilal Shahid (s9iper1)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 928318, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.