Setting the status to Offline and then locking the screen or waiting for the auto-away timeout sets the status to away. This means when I leave my workstation, setting IM to offline in the hope that the resource will, in fact, be offline, is jeopardised by Telepathy going back onlien in order to fulfill its auto-away configuration. Auto-away thus should not be triggered when the manually selected status is anything else than Available! Reproducible: Always Tracked in Debian: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=748712
I've seen this happening some time ago as well but no matter what I try I cannot reproduce this anymore on the very same machine. Can you confirm that it happens every single time you set yourself as offline and locking your screen /always/ connects you?
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