Empathy IM client and MSN

[Messyhair42]

recently my Empathy instant messenger has not been connecting to the MSN protocol. is MSN blocking non-MSN traffic or is this an isolated problem?

[PratterFak]

I just discovered that my MSN is not connecting using Empathy either. I thought it was maybe because I'm on 10.10 now, but if you are on 10.04, then that must not be the case. All my other IMs are working- AIM, Yahoo, Google, etc. It's just MSN that will not connect.

Anyone know a fix for this?

[SeanBlader]

I'm seeing this too on Maverick, fortunately most everyone I know is on some other service, so it's no big loss for me.

[FlyingMG]

I am also having a similar problem: empathy to be connected to MSN, but my contacts just do not receive any messages I am sending....

[fbobraga]

I've experienced similar behavior here - them I installed pidgin

[FlyingMG]

I now also installed pidgin and it works again
thx for the tipp

[moteprime]

I also have this problem today with a MSN account not able to connect with no error messenge, using fresh and updated 10.10 installation.
Triend with pidgin, and it works fine.

[meborc]

it worked yesterday... it fails to work today (on fully updated 10.10)

[oyvinst]

Empathy is unable to connect to my MSN/Live Messenger account here, starting from today.. Using Ubuntu 10.04.

"Network error" immediately appears when enabling MSN account. - bah. How boring is that. All other types of accounts work fine (Jabber, IRC, etc.).

[oyvinst]

Empathy is unable to connect to my MSN/Live Messenger account here, starting from today.. Using Ubuntu 10.04.

"Network error" immediately appears when enabling MSN account. - bah. How boring is that. All other types of accounts work fine (Jabber, IRC, etc.).

I guess Microsoft changed something about the protocol on the server side, and current Empathy (telepathy-butterfly) no longer complies. Probably authentication-related.. *sigh*..