Cynthia wrote:
I have set up a Pidgen account thru Hotmail. I could not figure out how
You can't setup a Pidgin account through a service, although you can sometimes set up a service account through Pidgin and you can configure Pidgin to use a service account. As far as I know, Hotmail is an email service, not an instant messaging service, although MSN and Micosoft's "Live" branded IM services share a common owner.
to do this with Outlook Express which is my main email account. My question is do I have to be open in my Hotmail account to get instant messages from my contact I set up who uses Yahoo? What if I browsing on line and not signed into Hotmail? Thank you, Cindy
As a general principle, you need to be signed into the same services as the buddies with whom you want to communicate. There isn't a Hotmail service, but someone with a Hotmail address is likely to have an account with the MSN service.
I believe there is a special exception for MSN and Yahoo, which does allow messages submitted through one service to be be sent to a user of the other, although I haven't used it myself. I seem to remember that you have to use a special prefix on Yahoo addresses. Generally what you should be able to do with Pidgin is what you can do with the official clients (e.g. MSN Messenger), so the official Microsoft documentation should help explain what you can do. There may be subtle differences in the way that addresses are entered.
Another complication is that MSN user names are not really email addresses, and, at least in Europe, you can sign up with an address that is not valid for email. They are also not restricted to being Microsoft issued addresses; my office email address is an MSN address. Unless there is a specific block on Yahoo addresses, someone could sign up to MSN using a Yahoo email address and then use the MSN service, rather than, or as well as, the Yahoo one.
Outlook Express is not tied to a particular email address issuer, so, if Yahoo offer a POP (or if OE supports it, IMAP) email service, which they may well do, you could use Outlook Express to access Yahoo mailboxes.
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