I removed the contact from my contact list, restarted empathy and now everything works fine. It shows my status as online again. I guess there is no bug.
** Changed in: empathy (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Invalid -- empathy shows own status for MSN as offline https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/658873 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