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can't add buddy

Asked by mohnbroetchen

Hello,
for a week I receive the message "It isn't possible to add a new Buddy because there are too much on your list. Please delete one." I've done it but the message was shown again. I have 34 Buddys in my list. Where is the limit?

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Abhejit Rajagopal (sirgogo) said : 		#1

I have much more than 34 Buddies on my list! What you may want to try is toggling the view where you can see offline buddies. (Buddies-->Show-->Offline Buddies).
You may also want to try removing the pidgin package and reinstalling in the synaptic manager (or terminal).
If this does not work try logging into another client, such as the online Meebo (www.meebo.com) to see if this problem is isolated to pidgin and we can take it from there.

Let us know how it goes!

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mohnbroetchen (fabian-monheim) said : 		#2

Hello back,
thank you for your answer. I reinstalled it but it doesn't help
On meebo I find nearly the same problem but no answer. http://forum.meebo.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1006&p=4040&hilit=add+new+buddies#p4040
When i working on Windows and use Miranda I haven't this problem.

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Abhejit Rajagopal (sirgogo) said : 		#3

Hello John,

I don't think it's a problem with Pidgin or Meebo. I think perhaps you have some ports blocked/disabled in Ubuntu itself. Meebo works in a browser, but still uses the same AIM protocol to access the AIM server just as Pidgin does. So I think you may want to try and find out which ports are available/blocked in your Ubuntu partition/installation and which ones are not.

I remember seeing a thread about this guy, yinglcs2, on the Ubuntu forums. He was trying to write a script so you can check which ports are available locally. So you might want to try and PM him. I've got to run now, but I'll look into a solution when I get back tonight/tomorrow.

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