MSN won't connect

[Greenmeanie]

Hi all,

I've joined the forum in the hope that someone can help, after looking through the posts I can see similar problems but nothing the same. I'm running a G5 iMac (just the little 1.83 GHz Intel) with Leopard 10.5.2 and was satisfied using MSN Messenger. I then developed a problem, Messenger was telling me it couldn't connect to the server. In a bid to find the problem and on recommendation I downloaded Adium, which I have to say I much prefer the look of and would rather use than Messenger. After getting to the root of the problem I had (PeerGuardian.... suppressed shudder!) and deleting it, I found that MSN was working again, with both the old account and a new Hotmail account I set up. However, Adium still won't connect, it will work with my .Mac account (AIM), Yahoo and ICQ. I can't see the problem, does anyone know of, or has anyone heard of a similar problem and if there's a work around?

I can return to Messenger but as mentioned I much prefer the look of Adium, also I'm deeply suspicious of all things Microsoft and Windoze related.

Please help!

After searching through the "tickets" I see that this is a problem encountered by many people (specifically Ticket #9176) I wonder if that has anything to do with the lack of replies! The lst thing I want to do is come across as tick as t he ticket mentioned does seem to a solution. However, how the f**k to implement that solution?? I am no computer Luddite, but at the same time, I'm afraid I have no clue how to fix my copy of Adium....Please help me

[Greenmeanie]

Hi all, after moaning about the lack of response (post had only been up a day or 2, just frustrated, or is that the wife?) I had a think and tried a few things. There may be a solution involving extremely long lines of code and Terminal bug logs. I found, getting into my router's config via my web browser, taking note of the DNS Server IP's (2 of them in my case but can be up to 3 apparently). I then made a note of them and added them to Network Prefs (DNS tab). The routers IP address is there, I just added them underneath and hey presto Adium seems to work fine now!

[teadust]

Same thing here. Ran the update to 1.2.2 the other day and wish I hadn't. Now it just hangs while trying to connect to my MSN account and never connects to it. Hope a new update is out soon!

[teadust]

I found, getting into my router's config via my web browser, taking note of the DNS Server IP's (2 of them in my case but can be up to 3 apparently). I then made a note of them and added them to Network Prefs (DNS tab). The routers IP address is there, I just added them underneath and hey presto Adium seems to work fine now!

Tried that. Didn't work for me. Running OSX 10.4.11 on a 2.4 GHz Intel Core Duo Mac laptop pro, 4 gigs SDRAM.

Everything worked fine before I ran this latest Adium update.

[teadust]

Seems to have queered something somewhere, because now I can't connect to my MSN account with Fire, which I used with no trouble before I switched to Adium...

[ShadowTech]

I've been having the same hanging issues. I've food a reboot will let msn sign in once, until it disconnects. Using HTTP mode in Adium for MSN seems to work for a while, but then it will disconnect on me.

Does anyone know what the last version of Adium was that worked with msn properly?

[quobobo]

I've been having this problem as well, for the last week or so. Here's the error I get in the console:

08/03/10 18:46:09 [0x0-0x4f04f0].com.adiumX.adiumX[11577] ** (process:11577): CRITICAL **: purple_url_encode: assertion `str != NULL' failed \

I hope this gets fixed soon, I really hate using the official MSN client...