Remove Custom Emotes from Spam Filter.

[Dark_Legacy]

Maybe you are also experiencing being out of emote range, I had the same issue where I would emote friends and would not get a response or a friend would tell me they waved to me but it would not show up on my chat log, so we did some testing where we emoted each other and started getting further away each time. What we ended up discovering is that emotes whether actual or custom have a short range, basically if you get too far away you will see the animation (your friend waving etc) but the text will not appear on your log, it seems to be the same range as /say.