Debian MSN clients can't connect

From: Pigeon (jah.pigeon_at_ukonline.co.uk)
Date: 10/29/03

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    Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 04:51:16 +0000
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    Having installed Debian on a mate's PC, his kids are complaining
    because they can't get onto MSN Messenger...

    The kids have given me a username eg. 'user.name@hotmail.com' and a
    password to go with it (an English word). I've tried these in gaim,
    kmerlin and everybuddy; none of them can connect and it doesn't look
    like it's because they've given me an invalid username/password. gaim
    (v0.58) is the least informative; when I try to connect, it responds
    very quickly with a dialog saying

      user.name@hotmail.com has been signed off: Disconnected.

    From kmerlin 0.3.4-pre3 I get:

    Sending protocol
    Sending server policy
    (long pause, of a minute or more)
    Idle detection enabled: true Timer: 15
    set connected to: false
    Call cancelConnect()

    (repeated indefinitely)

    From everybuddy-cvs (EveryBuddy v0.2.1beta7) (logged with
    'everybuddy > logfile 2>&1') I get:

    Can't open contact file(/home/pigeon/.everybuddy/contacts) for reading: No such file or directory
    notes init
    Licq Contact List init
    ICQ99 Contact List init
    GnomeICU Contact List init
    Gaim Buddy List init
    SetProtocol: comparing VER 20 0 to VER 20 MSNP2
    SetProtocol: comparing VER 21 0 to VER 21 MSNP2
    <snip 22 to 39>
    SetProtocol: comparing VER 40 0 to VER 40 MSNP2
    Unable to login to MSN
    Using esd sound
    MSN_Read(): "VER 20 0" --Meredydd
    MSN_Read(): "VER 21 0" --Meredydd
    <snip 22 to 39>
    MSN_Read(): "VER 40 0" --Meredydd

    and from everybuddy 0.4.3:

    Connect went fine
    Connected
    (pause)
    MSN: Error: Protocol negotiation failed
    Not found chatroom
    Closed connection with socket -1

    Anybody got any ideas what's going on here / what to check?

    Also, anyone know how you obtain the username and password which these
    clients require to connect? I'm not 100% sure about the one the kids
    have given me; it does seem to be valid for logging in to hotmail but
    does that automatically make it valid for an MSN Messenger client?

    (I'm somewhat hampered by the fact that I hardly know what MSN
    Messenger *is* apart from being something I find totally
    uninteresting! :-) so have never bothered to try and get a Linux
    client going for it myself... no experience whatsoever!) 

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