Cannot connect to MSN

meester · Post by **meester** » Mon Feb 28, 2005 10:33 am

Since a day or so I cannot connect to MSN anymore ... always get a error message:

SCREENNAME (MSN): GAIM
Connection error from Notification server (messanger.hotmail.com) Writing Error

Any ideas ?

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Feb 28, 2005 10:49 am

Same proble here. Is it our friend Billl who's behind all this connection problems?

dSAN

Dru · Post by **Dru** » Mon Feb 28, 2005 11:19 am

I was having the same problem but it now seems to be fixed as I managed to sign in about 5 minutes ago.

I'm certain it was an msn issue as i couldnt connect using any IM client apart from msn messenger itself :S

//Dru

Magritte · Post by **Magritte** » Mon Feb 28, 2005 7:29 pm

I've been having this problem for weeks. I've pretty much given up on signing in with it. I don't see any error messages (maybe I'm looking in the wrong place?) just an infinite amount of time connecting which never resolves. Password and username are correct.

I'm using messenger.hotmail.com:80 and the systemwide SOCKS5 proxy. Same problem occurs with no proxy. AIM and Yahoo, knock wood, are working fine. Any thoughts?

Arenzera · Post by **Arenzera** » Tue Mar 01, 2005 9:07 am

I've had the same problem too. Once Adium crashed and that fixed it :-)

If you're having any problems with Adium and MSN Messenger, try trashing ~/Library/Application Support/Adium 2.0/Users/Default/libgaim/

Seems to cure any connection problems for me.

Kiel :-)

Magritte · Post by **Magritte** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 8:24 am

Arenzara, thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately it didn't fix my MSN connection problems. Still have no problem connecting with AIM and Yahoo.

Arenzera · Post by **Arenzera** » Fri Mar 04, 2005 7:50 am

Archive (just incase it doesn't work) and trash your ~/Library/Application Support/Adium 2.0/Users/ folder.

I know you'll have to create everything again but it might work. If it doesn't, revert back to the copy of the folder you archived.

Kiel :-)