On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 06:15:53AM +0000, 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 and it seems like I'm not the only one having problems: > > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?s=7a8b67cacd0eda7cc9d9ba4facdc9eb6&t=1037515 > http://forums.mactalk.com.au/13/65221-msn-refusing-log-adium.html > > This seems to affect all libpurple based clients including Adium. I've > already had a look at the mailing list archives and no-one seems to have > posted about this issue. It seems to have started occurring literally > in the last twenty-four hours as well. > > thanks, > > Ananda >
Just thought I'd throw this out there; Debian Lenny, Pidgin 2.4.3, no problems connecting to MSN. Perhaps something in the newest version broke compatibility?
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