[Pidgin] #10681: Has you wrong for MSN contacts

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Tue Mar 23 20:54:49 EDT 2010


#10681: Has you wrong for MSN contacts
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 Reporter:  NishaKitty  |        Owner:  khc
     Type:  defect      |       Status:  new
Milestone:              |    Component:  MSN
  Version:  2.6.3       |   Resolution:     
 Keywords:  Has you     |  
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Old description:

> Every time I add a new buddy and they add me I hover my mouse over their
> name, and it says "Has you: No". I've logged into the official client for
> MSN and this problem isn't present. It also seems to be present on other
> third party clients as well, aMSN seems to do it too. Contacts already on
> my list are not effected but if a contact was to remove me and then re-
> add me, the problem would re-occur.
>
> Since Windows Live Messenger has no "Has you" feature I can only presume
> you're going off of Privacy tab. I can confirm the Privacy tab reflects
> that my contacts have me and I have them, except for my partner who is
> using Pidgin.
>
> I even added myself to my MSN contacts and I show up on the "Allow List"
> and the "See who has added you to their contact list". In Pidgin "Has
> you" is wrong and not the same as in Windows MSN Live Messenger.

New description:

 Every time I add a new buddy and they add me I hover my mouse over their
 name, and it says "Has you: No". I've logged into the official client for
 MSN and this problem isn't present. It also seems to be present on other
 third party clients as well, aMSN seems to do it too. Contacts already on
 my list are not effected but if a contact was to remove me and then re-add
 me, the problem would re-occur.

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Comment(by NishaKitty):

 Replying to [comment:18 glaubitz]:
 > Replying to [comment:17 NishaKitty]:
 > > I just removed a contact in Pidgin and then readded then I had to
 remove then twice as the first remove did not work. Has you: Yes after
 doing so.
 > >
 >
 > You removed a contact from your list and checked your contact's list and
 it displayed you as
 > "Has you: Yes" *AFTER* removing and re-adding, right? What about
 directly after removing. Please note, that in order to the "Has you"
 status being updated, you have to log out and in again to MSN. "Has you"
 is only updated during login.
 >
 > In Windows Live Messenger (the original client), you always have to
 delete the Windows Live Contacts folder to make sure the information in
 the privacy list gets refreshed.
 >
 > > Next test I removed them in MSN Live then readded with Pidgin. To
 which my surprise my contact appeared in my list after signing back on to
 Pidgin...
 > >
 >
 > So you didn't re-add your contact but it was already there?
 >
 > > MSN just gets more confusing it also appears that "Get Info" is now
 failing as well as Pidgin getting MSN Avatars... I really don't know what
 gives...
 >
 > Weird. But, as I said and as I wrote in my mail to MSN support, I'm 99%
 sure it's a server issue.
 >
 > Adrian

 I didn't do all these steps but when I freshly installed my Windiws Live.
 My contact which is my own account (I added my own account in Pidgin ages
 ago) Shows up on both the "Allow List" and the "See who has added you to
 their contact list". But on Pidgin it shows "Has you: No". I've checked
 twice...

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Ticket URL: <http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/10681#comment:19>
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