Pidgin support for MSN sucks!

6/19/2008 marc 8 comments

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.

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Written by Livio about 4 years ago. Reply

… for XMPP and GG too. Pidgin sucks.

Look at Galaxium ( http://code.google.com/p/galaxium/ ).
Written by nifan about 4 years ago. Reply

You can also look for emesene: http://www.emesene.org/
Written by Luis about 4 years ago. Reply

You can also try msn-pecan. It’s an alternative pidgin plugin for msn: http://code.google.com/p/msn-pecan/
Written by marc about 4 years ago. Reply

Hey, that’s a good idea. I’ll check it out.
Written by Rob Loach about 4 years ago. Reply

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.
Written by Ka-Hing Cheung about 4 years ago. Reply

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.
Written by devil's cookie about 4 years ago. Reply

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.
Written by msn nickleri about 3 years ago. Reply

Try check it http://code.google.com/p/msn-pecan/

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