pidgin refuses to connect to msn network

[Peach]

reason: cannot retrieve addressbook
seems like M$ is trying to boycott non native clients?

check this out: http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/8080

any workaround?

EDIT: here there's a workaround: http://www.nabble.com/-8080:-Unable-to-retrieve-MSN-address-book-td21407542.html
install x11-plugins/pidgin-msn-pecan and from pidgin account dialog, change the protocol from 'msn' to 'wlm'.
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[oliver]

thanks for posting the workaround!
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[lesourbe]

try this

use wlm protocol instead of msn protocol in pidgin configuration.

(shorter version) : did not see there was already a workaround.
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[<3]

thx that seemed to work for me.

[keet]

[neonl]

Hi,
isn't msn-pecan suppose to be able to set custom status as msn personal messages?

I can see other people's personal messages but can set my own (which i could do with pidgin's msn plugin)... Anyway, this should be fixed soon in a new pidgin release, right?

[Voyageur]

If you have pidgin-msn-pecan-0.0.17 installed, this is no longer true: you can set personal message it via "Set Personal Message" in the accounts/your WLM account submenu, but it does not use the status message by default for that

This can be disabled (and use standard pidgin status message for personal message), in the advanced account options (uncheck "Use independent personal messages").
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[neonl]

Btw, apparently the problem with the oficial msn plugin is solved in the servers.