Posts Tagged ‘pidgin’

3rd party MSN problems: Update!

Saturday, January 31st, 2009

In my previous post 3rd party MSN problems, I discussed how to update pidgin to use MSN-Pecan, rather than Libpurple. After doing some research, the problem was found to be the implementation of MSNP15. Official MSN clients, as well as a few 3rd party clients, seem to fall back on older protocols. As MSN-Pecan uses MSNP12, it will work.

This morning, I accidentally signed in under MSN, rather than the WLM account on pidgin and lo-and-behold it worked! The pidgin folks have pushed out a fix to the MSNP15 problem and pidgin should function correctly now.

If you’d like to follow the bug report, it can be found here.

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3rd party MSN problems

Monday, January 12th, 2009

Yesterday I attempted to connect to my MSN account with pidgin and received the error “Unable to retrieve MSN Address Book.“  After a bit of research I found that Microsoft has prevaricated parts of the MSN protocol in turn for the WLM protocol.

In order to fix this issue, you must switch your protocol to WLM from MSN. If you don’t have the WLM option in the ‘add account’ dialog box install the X11 plugin for msn-pecan. (Under Gentoo this is: x11-plugins/pidgin-msn-pecan)

After this install, a restart of pidgin, and creating a WLM pidgin account I was able to resume chatting happily.

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