[Bug 975136] [NEW] Blocked contacts "forgotten" in between invocations of the program

[johnmudd]

Public bug reported:

Empathy has a problem with not blocking "blocked" contacts. So I
verified that the spam users were on my "blocked" contact list. Since
blocking is not working I shut down Empathy and restarted it thinking
this might be necessary to put the current "blocked" contacts into
effect. It didn't help. I checked the "blocked" contact list again and
found all but two of the "blocked" contacts had been removed from the
list.

FYI: This is apparently not why the blocking is not working. Even users
still on my "blocked" contact list are able to send me new messages.

FWIW, https://www.meebo.com/messenger has no problem blocking these same
yahoo IM spam users. I'm not suggesting meebo is full featured
substitute for Empathy. I'm just pointing out that blocking contacts is
doable.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: empathy 3.2.0.1-0ubuntu1.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-17.30-generic-pae 3.0.22
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-17-generic-pae i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Apr  6 09:10:40 2012
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/empathy
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release i386 (20111012)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: empathy
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

** Affects: empathy (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: apport-bug apport-lpi i386 oneiric running-unity

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