Regarding the problem with Empathy: It probably doesn't even try to get online [1], so it doesn't help at all with diagnosing sugar.
[1] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=539142 CU Sascha -- http://sascha.silbe.org/ http://www.infra-silbe.de/
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