Adium, AOL Beta software, and mail.app

Kakaze · Post by **Kakaze** » Tue Feb 08, 2005 1:20 am

Okay, AOL has a new beta out for Mac users to use mail.app to send and receive AOL mail.

You have to download a programme that changes all the settings for you.

Okay, fine and dandy, it should only change mail.app's settings and iChat's right?

Not.

Now Adium insists on displaying my full name in AIM messages instead of my nick name. I've checked the prefs and the "alias" for AIM is empty. If I change the AIM alias that shows up instead but if I empty it my full name pops up again.

And until I restarted my computer after doing this I couldn't message anyone.

If this programme configures mail and iChat to work with my AOL name and use my full name why would any of that jump over to Adium?

Second, I haven't had this problem until after doing this AOL thing, but now MSN won't connect. It tells me "my email address (MSN) Gaim error: connection error from notification server (messenger.hotmail.com): writing error"

Any ideas?

Kakaze · Post by **Kakaze** » Tue Feb 08, 2005 1:54 am

Oh, and I reinstalled Adium too. Still the same.

Oh wait, I lied...it seems to've fixed the alias problem.

Still not signing into MSN.

Magritte · Post by **Magritte** » Tue Feb 08, 2005 2:27 am

I haven't changed a thing on my machine and am having problems with MSN as well so I doubt it's related to your new software (which is a nice idea in theory).

Kakaze · Post by **Kakaze** » Tue Feb 08, 2005 3:20 am

It must've been a coincidence because I'm on MSN now.

I'm just going to sit quietly in the corner...don't mind me.

Kakaze · Post by **Kakaze** » Tue Feb 08, 2005 4:07 pm

Okay, I thought the reinstall fixed this, but I see it happening again today.

When I'm talking on AIM on my end I see my full name instead of my screen name, yet Adium can't know my full name because I never put it in anywhere.

:bangs head on keyboard:

Post by **evands** » Tue Feb 08, 2005 9:22 pm

Kakaze wrote:Okay, I thought the reinstall fixed this, but I see it happening again today.

When I'm talking on AIM on my end I see my full name instead of my screen name, yet Adium can't know my full name because I never put it in anywhere.

:bangs head on keyboard:

Your "me" address book card is supplying it.

Kakaze · Post by **Kakaze** » Fri Feb 11, 2005 7:53 am

Ah ha...I don't like that.

Oh well, good bye "me" address card; have fun in the trash bin.