Pidgin SIPE contact search not working properly and feature to view the status of a person who is not in our contact list

[Lalit Kumar]

Hi,

        I use Pidgin-SIPE to connect to my co-workers at office. Firstly I
noticed that Contact search is not working properly. Its not returning all
appropriate results. Can someone tell me if I can do anything about it. And
secondly, I'd like to see if a user is online without adding him to my
contacts list. Currently I could search and IM that person, but I can't
know if he is online without adding him to my contact list. In Skype for
Business/Lync , we could see if a user is online without adding him to the
contact list. Can someone tell me if there is a workaround for this
problem? If not, I'd like to submit a feature enhancement for this? Can
someone please tell me how I can do that?

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Regards,
Lalit
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