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GAIM grabs ALL my contacts

hmhill17
2007-01-31
2013-01-14
  • hmhill17

    hmhill17 - 2007-01-31

    Every time I restart GAIM beta6, it grabs all of my GMail contacts and puts them back in my buddy list.  Is there a setting somewhere that will make it stop?

     
    • eapjvi

      eapjvi - 2007-02-01

      No, this is a bug. Last I saw Sean said he was looking into it.

       
    • JiveMasterT

      JiveMasterT - 2007-02-01

      Hmm.  I don't have that problem.  Is it happening to everyone?

       
    • petersaints

      petersaints - 2007-02-02

      It happens to me as well ;)

       
      • Sean Egan

        Sean Egan - 2007-02-02

        Does it happen everytime for you guys? If you delete your blist.xml file, do they all come back next time around? I can't reproduce this on demand (although it has happened to me), but it hasn't happened to me in the past few days straight. If it happens more reliably for you guys, let me know. It may have been a one-time fluke.

        -s.

         
      • hmhill17

        hmhill17 - 2007-02-02

        It seems to have stopped.  Maybe it was a weird profile issue or soemthing between work and home.

         
        • Sean Egan

          Sean Egan - 2007-02-02

          I actually *just* found it. The server is adding people to your buddy list when you e-mail them. Can you guys confirm that's what you've been seeing?

          -s.

           
          • Kingolis

            Kingolis - 2007-03-07

            This is exactly what I am experiencing.  Thank you in advance.

             
            • phekylmadder

              phekylmadder - 2007-03-09

              Yep. me too.  It even threw some (but not all) spam contacts in my buddy list.

               
          • jonathan-

            jonathan- - 2007-03-09

            This is exactly what I am seeing. I just sent an update email to a group of family/friends from my gmail account, and 25 new people showed up in my buddy list.

            Let me know if you need to to test anything or need more info.

            thanks
            -jonathan

            I'm running 2.0.0beta6 on Windows.
            Debugging Information
              Plugins: Enabled
              SSL: Gaim was compiled with SSL support.
              GTK+ Runtime: 2.10.7
              Glib Runtime: 2.12.7

              Library Support
                Cyrus SASL: Disabled
                Gadu-Gadu library (libgadu): Internal
                GtkSpell: Enabled
                GnuTLS: Disabled
                Network Security Services (NSS): Enabled
                Perl: Enabled
                Tcl: Enabled
                Tk: Enabled

             
    • Kenneth G. Goutal

      Is Gaim *supposed* to grab contacts from GMail?  Or anywhere else?
      The only reference to "contacts" I could find in the changelog is this:
        "The Evolution Integration plugin now supports Groupwise contacts."
      I mean, I guess it would be nice to be *able* to import *some* of my contacts
      from *some* of my email (or other?) address books,
      but with the number of people I have in various address books
      both on my deskside computer and on services around the net,
      it could clog my buddy list pretty quickly.

       
    • hmhill17

      hmhill17 - 2007-03-10

      I had to rebuild my system and it's happening again.  Deleting blist.xml did no good.  No idea what I did to make it stop before.

       
    • siegfre

      siegfre - 2007-03-15

      The contacts seem to magically reappear even after I delete them the next time I start gaim ???