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      type="topic" style="task"
      id="remove-account">

  <info>
    <link type="guide" xref="index#accounts"/>
    <desc>Completely remove an account from <app>Empathy</app>.</desc>
    <revision pkgversion="2.28" version="0.1" date="2009-06-14" status="draft"/>
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    </revision>
    <revision pkgversion="2.30" version="0.4" date="2010-04-19" status="review"/>
    <credit type="author">
      <name>Milo Casagrande</name>
      <email>milo@ubuntu.com</email>
    </credit>
    <license>
      <p>Creative Commons Share Alike 3.0</p>
    </license>    
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      <year>2009</year>
      <name>GNOME Documentation Project</name>
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  </info>

  <title>Remove an account</title>

  <p>You can completely remove an account from <app>Empathy</app> if you no
  longer wish to use the account.  If you wish to use the account in
  <app>Empathy</app> again in the future, you will have to add your account
  details again.</p>
  
  <steps>
    <item>
      <p>From the <gui>Contact List</gui> window, choose <guiseq><gui>Edit</gui>
      <gui>Accounts</gui></guiseq>, or press <key>F4</key>.</p>
    </item>
    <item>
      <p>Select the account you wish to remove from the accounts list on the
      left side of the window.</p>
    </item>
    <item>
      <p>Click on <gui style="button">Remove</gui>.</p>
    </item>
    <item>
      <p>A dialog will be shown asking for confirmation. Click the <gui>Remove</gui>
      button to permanently remove the account.</p>
    </item>
  </steps>

  <note>
    <p>Even after removing an account, <app>Empathy</app> does not delete
    your conversation history for that account.</p>
  </note>

</page>
