Thanks Will. Just a request, please test in a real world scenario; i.e. on two different physical machines, connected only by a (telepathy-salut) wifi network. Thanks again from the heart, for the reply. I feel hopeful. Thanks and Regards, Ajay <div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 1:20 PM, Will Thompson <<a href="mailto:will.thompson@collabora.co.uk" target="_blank">will.thompson@collabora.co.uk</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On 03/07/12 20:08, Ajay Garg wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"> Should I take the lack of an answer, as an indicate that the following use-case IS EXPECTED :: </blockquote> </div> No, it's not.<div class="im"> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"> I think that this might be expected, since there is no network-medium to communicate the offline-ness of the buddy. </blockquote> </div> Yes there is: their disappearance from the network. I've just tested this locally, and it seems to work, so I'll follow up on the bug. Regards, -- Will </blockquote></div>