I found a way to add contacts: 1. Turn off all accounts except the account to accept requests with. 2. Restart Empathy. 3. Accept requests. 4. Restart Empathy again.
I had an MSN account active, in addition to the one I would accept requests with. Quite annoying... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to empathy in ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/728181 Title: Accept MSN contact request in Empathy fails -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs