I just had a play with this and came to the following conclusion:

This does actually work perfectly fine... most of the time. However, sometimes, there's a confusion popping up (most probably in butterfly) about what the handle of a contact is.

As a result, you're being asked to confirm whether a contact can see your presence, but the handle in question is the self handle, which is clearly wrong. I've no idea what's going on but I've seen this before. I can never reliably reproduce it, but basically I called RequestHandles on a contact and it returned the self handle, which was very odd.

I'm pretty sure these are the same bugs, but I'm not sure how to fix it at the moment.

To confirm my suspicion, could you attach a dbus-monitor log of your account connecting, and you rejecting the contact subscription, please?

For the record of this bug, the following traceback is an example of when I try and remove the self handle:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.5/dbus/service.py", line 702, in _message_cb
    retval = candidate_method(self, *args, **keywords)
  File "/home/jonny/src/telepathy-butterfly/butterfly/channel/contact_list.py", line 211, in RemoveMembers
    self._remove(h)
  File "/home/jonny/src/telepathy-butterfly/butterfly/channel/contact_list.py", line 86, in method
    self._mutex.add_callback(self._key, handle, (unlocked_cb,))
  File "/home/jonny/src/telepathy-butterfly/butterfly/channel/contact_list.py", line 65, in add_callback
    callback[0](*callback[1:])
  File "/home/jonny/src/telepathy-butterfly/butterfly/channel/contact_list.py", line 83, in unlocked_cb
    if func(object, handle, *args, **kwargs):
  File "/home/jonny/src/telepathy-butterfly/butterfly/channel/contact_list.py", line 240, in _remove
    contact = handle.contact
AttributeError: 'ButterflySelfHandle' object has no attribute 'contact'

The dbus-monitor log can be found here.  The logging started before empathy was connected and was stopped after the behaviour described in my bug report was concluded.

http://pastebin.com/Ek0gzKJJ

The proper paste url for the dbus-monitor log is: 

http://pastebin.com/qyR77FSZ

(In reply to comment #2)
> The dbus-monitor log can be found here.  The logging started before empathy was
> connected and was stopped after the behaviour described in my bug report was
> concluded.
> 
> http://pastebin.com/Ek0gzKJJ

This url does not work.  I posted a new one below.

err

...
method call sender=:1.541 -> dest=org.freedesktop.Notifications serial=2222 path=/org/freedesktop/Notifications; interface=org.freedesktop.Notifications; member=Notify
   string "Empathy"
   uint32 0
   string ""
   string "Subscription requested by kelsie1808"
   string "
Message: Hi! Please add me to your Yahoo! Messenger contact list so we can chat. Thanks!"
   array [
      string "respond"
      string "Respond"
   ]
   array [
      dict entry(
         string "x"
         variant             int32 887
      )
      dict entry(
         string "y"
         variant             int32 1010
      )
...

This is not MSN.

As I've already made a few comments about the handle bug, I'll repurpose this bug.

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