[Pidgin] #8331: Buddies show as Offline when they are not!

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#8331: Buddies show as Offline when they are not!
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 Reporter:  snackmaster     |           Owner:  MarkDoliner
     Type:  defect          |          Status:  new        
Component:  AIM             |         Version:  2.5.4      
 Keywords:  offline, buddy  |   Launchpad_bug:             
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 1) Buddies that were functional and are online stop showing up as active.
 [[BR]]
 2) If you enable "show offline buddies" the accounts show as offline.
 3) Buddies are actually online.[[BR]]
 4) No apparent reason why this affects select accounts (I had to recreate
 5 of 40 this morning, 4th+ time I've done so).[[BR]]
 5) Deleting the Buddy and re-adding solves the issue.[[BR]]
 6) No way of detecting which buddies the issue is affecting.[[BR]]

 Case example: The person seated next to me shows me as offline, I show
 them as offline, but we're both online. We both delete each other in our
 respective Buddy list and re-add. Viola we both show as online. This is
 creating madness as you're never quite sure who is online, who is ignoring
 you, who's been fired, who's died...

 This issue ''seems'' to be related to AIM accounts but I have not
 confirmed as AIM is our internal IM and gets the heaviest use. The issue
 is causing folks to head back to Trillian.

 Active plugins: Iconify on away, Windows Pidgin Options.
 Active IM's: AIM, Yahoo, MSN

 OS - Windows Vista SP1, Windows XP SP2.

 Issues has been knowingly experienced with the last 3 versions of Pidgin
 (currently on 2.5.4)

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Ticket URL: <http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/8331>
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