[Pidgin] #5022: Yahoo contacts blocked if the number of contacts in the list is higher than 286

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#5022: Yahoo contacts blocked if the number of contacts in the list is higher than
286
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Reporter:  cage    |       Owner:  marv                                  
    Type:  defect  |      Status:  new                                   
Priority:  minor   |   Component:  Yahoo!                                
 Version:  2.4.0   |    Keywords:  yahoo block user-missing lost contacts
 Pending:  0       |  
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 Hello.

 I have a yahoo messenger account that holds more than 300 contact/friends.
 Once i've updated pidgin (i guess it was 2.3.x at the time that problem
 occured), i noticed that i lost about 50 contacts in one particular group
 (called "Work" which alfabetically is the last group in my list). What was
 strange was that the list of user i lost was starting with the letter "d"
 - so to be more specific, it seemed that every contact in that group that
 was starting (the id) with d,e,f,g,...w,x,z was deleted.
 At the time, i belived it was a problem with me, since i got a new laptop
 and it was very sensitive the touchpad. I didn't had time to dig into it
 anyway but today , after i updated the version of pidgin i use to 2.4.0 ,
 i noticed something strange into my blist.xml . It seems that the missing
 accounts was tagged as blocked in the account i was used.
 Since it was alfabetically , i tried to remove some contacts from a
 different group, to see what happens.
 Ofcourse some of the "missing contacts" appeared.
 So it seems there is somewhere a limit of the ids in the list, and the
 rest gets blocked automatically (i wonder why?).
 I tried to findout more clear what is the exact number i can have and it
 seems what is over 286 gets blocked.

 Thanks,
 Keep up the good work.

 PS: I will classify it as an Yahoo! protocol problem, but i cannot say
 what it happens if i add a second account (for example on different
 protocol) - so i am not sure if this limit applies to an account or to all
 ids in the list.

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Ticket URL: <http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/5022>
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