I have the same problem. Empathy doesn't show MSN contacts (it works for facebook contacts). I see the debug messages on butterfly and shows the contact's e-mails.
** Attachment added: "empathy.png" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/50893032/empathy.png -- contacts not visible from msn in empathy https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/512827 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to empathy in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
