Pidgin

[Devon Aitken]

Madison Kelly wrote:
> Devon Aitken wrote:
>> My siblings used to use gaim with Linux. I'm a new Linux user and 
>> when I installed with sudo apt-get install gaim it came up as Pidgin. 
>> When I tried to use it it said that the server does not support our 
>> protocol. Is there anyway around this?
>
> AOL got on their case about their name, so they changed it.
>
> As for MSN, I just tested my old MSN account and it connected fine.
>
> Settings;
> Server:   messenger.hotmail.com
> Port:     1863
> Protocol: MSN
> Username: (full email address)
> Password: (your secret)
>
> That's it. If it still doesn't work, let us know what version you are 
> using.
>
> Madi
> -- 
It worked for a little while. Everything seemed to be working for about 
2 minutes then it asked for my password so I typed it. Then the error 
showed again saying my e-mail was disconnected and also said "Our 
protocol  is not supported by the server."  again.
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