All the people using Microsoft’s Live (MSN) Messenger protocol with Pidgin (any OS) or Adium on OS X may have noticed that it wasn’t possible to connect to their prefered IM network since this morning. The reason is that Microsoft changed something in the protocol…as far as I know, they have retired protocol version 15 or 16 that Pidgin/Adium are using.
There are 3 solutions to this problem at the moment:
- Install Empathy + Butterfly plugin (yum install empathy telepathy-butterfly)
- Install the MSN-Pecan plugin for Pidgin, from http://code.google.com/p/msn-pecan/
- Wait for an update
I hope this quick post helps…
But now, without plugins msn network is working again in pidgin.
Yep, it started to work again…
Microsoft must have been up on this in a second. It is now June and we are back to step one, connection errors have returned. Downloading the plugin (pecan) as we speak. Why they have such a Hard On for 3rd party wares is beyond me, but this has been a recurring theme since the late 80s…