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[Michal <304889@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> And still not an Empathy issue. There is nothing to be done on Empathy
@hggdh2: With all due respect, I cannot agree with you.

Consider this (real!) scenario:
In my company, I use IM multi protocol client on Ubuntu. I need to have 4 accounts:
1. local (jabber) --> local intranet server1  [must use DIRECT http, must NOT use proxy]
2. gtalk (jabber) --> internet via http proxy [must use http via PROXY]
3. exchange (sipe) --> local intranet server2 [must use directly http, must NOT use proxy]
4. one more (gg) --> internet via http proxy [must use http via PROXY]

Obviously, this can be done only if IM client let's me to setup http_proxy per account. Empathy does not. It is missing this feature.
This is the reason, why I (and a lot of my colleagues in50 000+ employees company) are using Pidgin instead of Empathy which is the default Ubuntu IM client.  Of course not all of employees are using Ubuntu, but all of them are potentially affected by this bug. Only in this one company. There are several others companies, campuses etc in similar situation.

Please also note, that many popular applications have builtin proxy settings (Firefox, Pidgin, ...). 
It's not a critical feature for IM, but for multi communicator it's important.

Kind Regards,
Michal

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/304889

Title:
  Does not use system proxy settings

Status in Chat app, and Telepathy user interface:
  Invalid
Status in Jabber/XMPP connection manager:
  Confirmed
Status in Telepathy Haze:
  Confirmed
Status in A full-featured IRC connection manager for telepathy.:
  Confirmed
Status in “empathy” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in “empathy” source package in Lucid:
  Invalid
Status in “empathy” package in Unity Linux:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: empathy

  Empathy wont connect to any major service trough a proxy. I've tried Google Talk, Jabber, MSN and Yahoo.
  I set the proxy preferences in GNOME, it's a plain proxy for all protocols, without authentication.

  Pidgin works normally in the same setup.

  Ubuntu 8.10, Empathy 2.24.1

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