Re: Debian MSN clients can't connect

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Date: 10/29/03

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To: Pigeon <jah.pigeon@ukonline.co.uk>

    On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Pigeon wrote:

    > 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.
    >
    <snip>
    > 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!)
    >
    > --
    > Pigeon
    Coo,Coo Pigeon,
    aim,msn mess., yahoo, are all 'chat' programs. kinda like irc which has
    fallen out of favor with a certain demographic. Many linux clients can
    support talking accross chat client protocols like gaim and everybuddy. I
    recall MSN saying 'due to security' they were considering only allowing
    'real' MSN clients use MSN. Dont know it this is it, as I dont use it.
    -Kev 

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