Re: MSN 'unable to retrieve MSN Address Book'

2009-01-12 Thread turgut kalfaoglu
Correct - I tried two clients, (pidgin and empathy) and both of them complained and could not connect. Did M$ change something on the fly just to screw with us? I believe the regular live client connects fine - a collague's computer who still suffers windows connected fine this morning.

Re: MSN 'unable to retrieve MSN Address Book'

2009-01-12 Thread Matej Cepl
On 2009-01-12, 08:01 GMT, turgut kalfaoglu wrote: Correct - I tried two clients, (pidgin and empathy) and both of them complained and could not connect. What did you use -- telepathy-butter or telepathy-haze. The latter just uses libpurple, so there is no difference from pidgin. I don't know

Re: MSN 'unable to retrieve MSN Address Book'

2009-01-12 Thread Matej Cepl
On 2009-01-12, 08:43 GMT, turgut kalfaoglu wrote: I'm not sure -- this is the empathy that comes with Fedora 10.. rpm -qa telepathy\* gconftool-2 --all-dirs /apps/telepathy/mc/accounts What do these give? Matěj ___ Support mailing list

Re: MSN 'unable to retrieve MSN Address Book'

2009-01-12 Thread turgut kalfaoglu
Since this started on a Monday, I bet some big wig at M$ has decided let's get rid of the non-MSN clients so they are forced to use Windows, start it on next monday. Oops, my hatred is showing. Our best bet is to try to adapt to whatever the native clients are doing. Since they seem to be

Re: MSN 'unable to retrieve MSN Address Book'

2009-01-12 Thread turgut kalfaoglu
Matej Cepl wrote: On 2009-01-12, 08:43 GMT, turgut kalfaoglu wrote: I'm not sure -- this is the empathy that comes with Fedora 10.. rpm -qa telepathy\* gconftool-2 --all-dirs /apps/telepathy/mc/accounts [r...@tklaptop ~]# rpm -qa telepathy\*

Re: MSN 'unable to retrieve MSN Address Book'

2009-01-12 Thread Phil Hannent
turgut kalfaoglu wrote: Since this started on a Monday, I bet some big wig at M$ has decided let's get rid of the non-MSN clients so they are forced to use Windows, start it on next monday. Oops, my hatred is showing. My brother just emailed me the log from the debug window (under Help

Re: MSN 'unable to retrieve MSN Address Book'

2009-01-12 Thread Tony Manco
Ananda Samaddar wrote: Hi all, long time Pidgin user here having problems with connecting to MSN. The error message I get is as the subject suggests: 'unable to retrieve MSN Address Book'. I've got no idea why this is happening or how to fix it. I've already Googled the error

MSN 'unable to retrieve MSN Address Book'

2009-01-12 Thread Kherzi Samir
Hi, maybe this can help: On Ubuntu 8.04.1 - Pidgin 2.4.1 = OK, working. The client connects to MSN. On Windows XP - Pidgin 2.5.2 = FAILED: Unable to retrieve MSN Address Book (In french: Impossible de récupérer le carnet d'adresses MSN). Cheers

Re: MSN 'unable to retrieve MSN Address Book'

2009-01-12 Thread Tony Manco
Ananda Samaddar wrote: Hi all, long time Pidgin user here having problems with connecting to MSN. The error message I get is as the subject suggests: 'unable to retrieve MSN Address Book'. I've got no idea why this is happening or how to fix it. I've already Googled the error