Pidgin support for MSN sucks!
Wow, I have several friends that use MSN and I use Pidgin to communicate with them. They have told me time and time again that I always appear off line when I am not or have been on line all day. I get this message a lot: “Message could not be sent because a connection error occurred:” when sending messages to them.
It really sucks because these are people that I need to communicate with and that I need them to know when I am online. It happens from work and home. I’m using OpenSuse 10.3 x86_64 with pidgin-2.4.1. A google search reveals that this has been going on for sometime and that it has been affecting a lot of people…That’s too bad.
… for XMPP and GG too. Pidgin sucks.
Look at Galaxium ( http://code.google.com/p/galaxium/ ).
Comment by Livio — 6/19/2008 @ 3:17 pm
You can also look for emesene: http://www.emesene.org/
Comment by nifan — 6/19/2008 @ 3:47 pm
You can also try msn-pecan. It’s an alternative pidgin plugin for msn: http://code.google.com/p/msn-pecan/
Comment by Luis — 6/19/2008 @ 4:56 pm
Hey, that’s a good idea. I’ll check it out.
Comment by marc — 6/19/2008 @ 4:59 pm
A better idea would be for you to get your friends on Jabber (they probably already have a Jabber account through GMail http://www.google.com/talk/ ), and then make them get off of MSN. XMPP FTW!
If you really want to, you can still connect to MSN through your Jabber or GTalk account if you have an open XMPP transport server setup.
Comment by Rob Loach — 6/19/2008 @ 8:45 pm
Both problems are server problems. Users reported that they can reproduce the first problem using older MSN clients. The second problem happens for current official client too, although rarely, and can (sometimes) be quite frequent for the protocol version that pidgin currently users (version 9). There’s experimental support for version 14 of the protocol, and hopefully by 2.5.0 we can switch on version 15 by default.
Comment by Ka-Hing Cheung — 6/19/2008 @ 11:51 pm
I think you believe that everything works out of the box. Pidgin has great basic MSN support. I have experienced your issues but this is because usually my friends have old official msn clients and my persistent cable issues.
So your telling me you will give up on a protocol on a program just because you can’t get it how to work… :P sounds somewhat whacked.
Pidgin FTW! BTW I think as of tonight I believe Microsoft updated their msn protocol standards so right now my older msn account isn’t communicating right with the server like it was before this time.
Comment by devil's cookie — 7/24/2008 @ 7:31 pm