Comment 27 for bug 452067

@Patrick: that is not the case. You do have to open empathy *once* to set up your accounts, but the me-menu remains active thereafter, even if you close your session/reboot/etc. I don't think it would be sensible for a user to intend to "go online" without having specified how.

With that in mind, bug #550824 is the same as this one, in that it requires the same fix.

The overlap in semantics between the me-menu and the messaging menu is a different issue, but it's not clear to me that moving/duplicating the empathy entry in the messaging menu is the way to solve it, a higher-level redesign may be needed.