http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28297
--- Comment #5 from Joerg Schiermeier mywine@schiermeier-software.de 2012-01-18 21:39:40 CST --- (In reply to comment #4)
IMO it's instead a dupe of 18244 because it's related to the login process, not the chat.
He said he cannot login. This behavior I watch also some wine versions before. Bug 18244 describes a crash after login. Also this is gone with wine 1.3.37.
As the applications maintainer I simply search for similar bugs. I recommend to focus them all to one or two bugs to get more into a track for solving this bugs and to find abandoned bugs related to YIM.