Pidgin reports MSN contacts with mobile number always online

[Broomer68]

Binary package hint: pidgin

Pidgin reports some MSN/Live buddies as online as soon as the program starts while they are off-line. This is probably something to do with the mobile functions in MSN. as though the capability to send messages to a mobile device (which can be turned off) means they are online.
Messages send to such buddies are not received, nor is an error generated when trying to do so, or is asked to get some credit to send to mobile.
Also buddy-pounces on 'sign on' are triggered as soon as Pidgin starts.

This is clearly a bug in Pidgin, as aMSN is reporting those contacts off-line (but with mobile)

This with Pidgin 2.5.1 on Intrepid beta with current updates (as of 10-13-2008).

It has been happening for some weeks now, so I guess it is something since alpha 6 or earlier.

[Magnus S (magnuss)]

Hi, thanks for the report. Is this bug still reproducible in Intrepid stable?

//magnus

[Broomer68 (jbezemer)]

Magnus S wrote:
> Hi, thanks for the report. Is this bug still reproducible in Intrepid
> stable?
>
> //magnus
>
> ** Changed in: pidgin (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>
I was just checking today, and in Intrepid the bug still exists, but
jaunty is working alright. the bug gets fixed with pidgin 2.5.3
and intrepid has 2.5.2

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[Mr. Mike (mike-himikeb)]

Note sure if this needs to be a separate bug, but what I found was that if I have a contact with a mobile #, and they are "invisible", they can send messages to Pidgin and I receive them, but any messages I send go to the mobile #. Interestingly, the other machine DOES see the "xxx is typing a message", but the message never appears - goes to the mobile.
Steps to reproduce:
 1) Set up two different MSN accounts - one for Pidgin, one for Windoze dead messenger
 2) Configure the MSN Live messenger account with a mobile # to receive text pages and "allow users on my contact list to send messages" or however you enable that.
 3) Using two computers (or running Windoze within a VM), Login using Windoze and set your status to "appear offline". Log in to Pidgin, too.
 4) From Windoze, send a message to Pidgin. Pidgin gets it.
 5) From Pidgin, send a message to Windows. The Windoze user will see "xxx is typing a message", but will never get the message - it goes to the cell phone.

As of Jan. 28, 2009, this is using Pidgin 2.5.2 in Intrepid. Have not yet ventured to Jaunty.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

could you try on jaunty and describe how to trigger the issue there?

[Bremm (bremm)]

Pidgin 2.6.6 on Lucid stills with same problem. Contact with mobile number goes offline and a cellphone icon appears on contact list. I need to logoff and logon on msn to show the contact as (really) offline. By the way, I know the same icon could mean the contact is running some sort of msn client on its own cellphone.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for pidgin (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

[Daniel Lockard (danielhlockard)]

This is still happening.

[Daniel Lockard (danielhlockard)]

I'm pretty sure its a bug with libpurple... it's happening in finch as well.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for pidgin (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

[Michael Nagel (nailor)]

i see this using finch on ubuntu 12.04 with the icq protocol as well...