[Pidgin] #4518: AOL contacts sometimes disappear / are listed as "offline"

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#4518: AOL contacts sometimes disappear / are listed as "offline"
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 Reporter:  jsquyres   |       Type:  defect
   Status:  new        |   Priority:  minor 
Component:  libpurple  |    Version:  2.3.1 
 Keywords:             |    Pending:  0     
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 This has been a long-standing problem in Adium that was just today
 determined to possibly be a libpurple issue.  Please see this extensive
 ticket over on the Adium trac for details:

     http://trac.adiumx.com/ticket/6217

 = Short Version =

 Every once in a while when I launch Adium, ''all'' my AOL contacts will
 not appear (i.e., be listed as offline).  But if I fire up a different IM
 client that supports AOL, I can see that at least some of my AOL contacts
 '''are''' online.  Re-launching Adium (Pidgin) shows them [still] to be
 "offline."  Note that this problem only appears to affect AOL contacts --
 my Sametime/meanwhile contacts will always show up just fine.

 This behavior repeats through multiple launches of Adium (Pidgin), and I
 can verify through other AOL clients (e.g., iChat) that at least some of
 my AOL clients ''are'' online at the same time (despite what Adium/Pidgin
 show me).  I can "fix" the behavior by changing the privacy settings on my
 AOL account -- regardless of what its current privacy value is, changing
 it to any other value and then re-launching Adium (Pidgin) makes all my
 AOL contacts appear online.

 It is difficult to track this behavior down (you'll see that the Adium
 ticket is over a year old) because it only happens once in a while --
 perhaps a few times a month.

 This behavior was replicated today on Adium 1.2b7 and Pidgin
 2.3.1/Windows; the Adium developers directed me to file a ticket here on
 your trac.

 I have previous attached anonymized logs on that Adium ticket (including
 what happened today in Adium); please let me know if I can provide any
 further information.

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Ticket URL: <http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/4518>
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