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 Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs