Pidgin

[Devon Aitken]

Madison Kelly wrote:
> Devon Aitken wrote:
>> 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.
>
> MS is always trying to break support with third party clients... Check 
> your version and see if there is a newer version available for 
> download. If you need help, let us know what version you are running 
> and what Linux distro and version you are running.
Ubuntu version 2.6.24-16-generic and the version for Pidgin is 2.4.1
>
> Madi
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