David: Thanks for the advice, especially in regards how to properly report a problem - I will definitely keep that all in mind for future use. You were right about it being a user name/password being wrong and I have now fixed the problem. Thank you for your help, I really appreciate it!
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 3:11 AM, David Woolley <[email protected]> wrote: > Jess Holy wrote: >> >> For two days now my MSN account has been unable to connect through >> Pidgin. It was working just fine before I went away for the weekend. I > > This normally means the user name or password are wrong. > >> am running the most current version of Pidgin. How do I fix this > > It is best to say the version number. It might, for example, be the latest > on a particular OS, but not the latest version, and someone reading this in > the future, may assume it is the most recent one at that time. > >> problem? All it tells me is this: Unable to authenticate: > > Before you can expect a fix, you need to provide enough information to > identify the cause of the problem; on the information provided, providing > the wrong user or password is the most likely cause. Assuming MS Windows, a > cut and paste of the debug window may help. NB this is an archived, public > mailing list. > > With proprietary protocols, like MSN, it can also happen that they are > changed in ways that takes a long time to reverse engineer, although, if > that had happened, one would expect a lot of people to be reporting > problems. > >> Authentication Failure. >> Thanks for the help. > > -- > David Woolley > Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. > RFC1855 says there should be an address here, but, in a world of spam, > that is no longer good advice, as archive address hiding may not work. > -- Jessica Holy 12401 Abbey Knoll Court Woodbridge, VA 22192 Phone: 703-730-3359 Cell: 703-217-6723 Email: [email protected] _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list Want to unsubscribe? Use this link: http://pidgin.im/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support
