This is happening to me, I just installed Ubuntu 14.04 using the same /home folders as a previous Debian 7.5 install. I get 9-10 notifications for every message that comes in empathy.
** Attachment added: "Multiple Alerts Per Message Received" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/empathy/+bug/436378/+attachment/4126040/+files/Screenshot%20from%202014-06-05%2013%3A33%3A21.png -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to empathy in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/436378 Title: indicator with empathy shows multiple messages for one received message Status in “empathy” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in “empathy” source package in Karmic: Fix Released Bug description: Binary package hint: indicator-applet When a new message is received from Empathy (tested with AIM -- Jabber would not connect at the time), the message shows up multiple times in the indicator applet. ProblemType: Bug Architecture: amd64 Date: Fri Sep 25 01:24:03 2009 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10 Package: indicator-applet 0.2.0-0ubuntu1 ProcEnviron: LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-10.35-generic SourcePackage: indicator-applet Uname: Linux 2.6.31-10-generic x86_64 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/empathy/+bug/436378/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp