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Milena

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Registered: 2010-04-02

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[SOLVED]Non-Microsoft MSN Clients are no longer connecting as of today

Hi

Emesene does not work anymore for me, i used it yesterday evening just fine and this morning i turned on my PC and Emesene is stuck when its trying to connect to msn. I don't know of any package update that could have broken it but maybe M$ kicked us out or something ? The service itself is up it seems.
Does anybody else use Emesene for msn and has problems to login ?

edit: changed title to make it more conform with the problem.

Last edited by Milena (2010-07-30 20:28:49)

migizi

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Re: [SOLVED]Non-Microsoft MSN Clients are no longer connecting as of today

I use Kopete and the same thing is happening to me. It worked last night but as of this morning I cannot connect. I'm starting to think that M$ is blocking non-MSN applications.

migizi

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Re: [SOLVED]Non-Microsoft MSN Clients are no longer connecting as of today

I just tried Pidgin and got the error that my buddy list is unavailable. I know it isn't an issue with MSN Messenger since that is what my wife uses and she is connected.

Gusar

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Re: [SOLVED]Non-Microsoft MSN Clients are no longer connecting as of today

I'm starting to think that M$ is blocking non-MSN applications.

I wouldn't go that far. It's likely they simply changed something and now the open source clients need to be adapted. Wouldn't be the first time.

Milena

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Re: [SOLVED]Non-Microsoft MSN Clients are no longer connecting as of today

I'll try aMSN later and see if that one still works.
And yea we'll see if Emesene, Pidgin, Kopete push updates this weekend. M$ is totally capable of doing such things though but most likely its a minor change in MSN.

EDIT:
Its on Emesene forums as well, they mention something about changes in the hotmail protocol so we probably just need an updated package for our messengers: http://forum.emesene.org/index.php/topic,3631.0.html

Last edited by Milena (2010-07-30 13:10:46)

munkyeetr

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Registered: 2008-08-07

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Re: [SOLVED]Non-Microsoft MSN Clients are no longer connecting as of today

Pidgin is working fine for me this morning, though last night i was typing messages and the party on the other end wasn't getting them (but I was getting theirs).

EDIT: Seconds after I made this post...mine crapped out. And I was in the middle of a conversation. Damn!

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loafer

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Re: [SOLVED]Non-Microsoft MSN Clients are no longer connecting as of today

aMSN isn't working either.

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Vamp898

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Re: [SOLVED]Non-Microsoft MSN Clients are no longer connecting as of today

I tested KMess, aMSN, Pidgin and Kopete... seems like a lot of Messengers have to update now

olvar

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Re: [SOLVED]Non-Microsoft MSN Clients are no longer connecting as of today

pidgin gave me problems in the morning, but now seems to be working fine

skanky

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Re: [SOLVED]Non-Microsoft MSN Clients are no longer connecting as of today

I'm connected using certerim - no conversations yet though as no MSN contacts are online. Unless of course centerim thinks I'm connected when I'm not.

I used to not receive a lot of messages from MSN contacts and that seemed to be an account (as opposed to client) issue.

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DeletedUser201201

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Re: [SOLVED]Non-Microsoft MSN Clients are no longer connecting as of today

I came across this problem today but now it seems fixed, I didn't upgrade pidgin though so I suppose it was a hotmail problem.

Vamp898

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Re: [SOLVED]Non-Microsoft MSN Clients are no longer connecting as of today

Pidgin gives me a "MSN Servers are temporary offline"

magnus

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Re: [SOLVED]Non-Microsoft MSN Clients are no longer connecting as of today

Libpurple clients don't work for me either. Centerim does work, however (thanks for the tip skanky).

ngoonee

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Re: [SOLVED]Non-Microsoft MSN Clients are no longer connecting as of today

MSN works fine here, it seems....

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madek

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Re: [SOLVED]Non-Microsoft MSN Clients are no longer connecting as of today

in the morning (about 5 hour ago) kopete and kmess don't connect
now, kopete conect fine but kmess not

Hund

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Re: [SOLVED]Non-Microsoft MSN Clients are no longer connecting as of today

Microsoft have some problems with the servers running the service. It could be that to. I've read about it today on a swedish site.

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valium97582

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Re: [SOLVED]Non-Microsoft MSN Clients are no longer connecting as of today

Pidgin not working for me too... started slightly after 3:00am (GMT-3) here in Brazil I think...

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archman-cro

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Re: [SOLVED]Non-Microsoft MSN Clients are no longer connecting as of today

msn through bitlbee seems to work as usual here...

Primoz

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Re: [SOLVED]Non-Microsoft MSN Clients are no longer connecting as of today

Kopete works here...
But it had a "burp" few hours back, so it could be some malfunction.

(OT: Does anyone else hates when people use M$ instead of MS. Come on, Microsoft is a company just as any other...)

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goran'agar

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Re: [SOLVED]Non-Microsoft MSN Clients are no longer connecting as of today

centerim works fine right now

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loafer

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Re: [SOLVED]Non-Microsoft MSN Clients are no longer connecting as of today

aMSN is now working for me.

(OT: I agree M$ is a bit of a daft phrase. Unless the person using it is not interacting with capitalism at all.  In which case they won't have a computer and won't be connected to the internet.)

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Milena

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Re: [SOLVED]Non-Microsoft MSN Clients are no longer connecting as of today

Emesene works again now with occasional disconnects. Guess this is solved.

fini_fly

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Re: [SOLVED]Non-Microsoft MSN Clients are no longer connecting as of today

I know this is marked as solved, but kmess isn't working for me still. aMSN does.

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Re: [SOLVED]Non-Microsoft MSN Clients are no longer connecting as of today

I know this is marked as solved, but kmess isn't working for me still. aMSN does.

Don't bump, it would be better to make a new topic. Either way kmess is fixed in 2.0.x git (I had this problem myself)

http://wwww.kmess.org/board/viewtopic.p … 5&start=15

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jasonwryan

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Re: [SOLVED]Non-Microsoft MSN Clients are no longer connecting as of today

Indeed.

Closing...

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