Empathy (MSN) unable to connect

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On 11/8/10 8:12 AM, Harald Servat wrote:
> 2010/11/8 Denise H. G. <darcsis at gmail.com>
> 
>>
>> On 2010/11/08 at 19:47, Harald Servat <redcrash at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>   I find that empathy (latest version available in packages) is not able
>> to
>>> connect to the MSN network. It reports "Unable to connect". Another user
>> and
>>> myself have opened a thread about the topic in the freebsd forums but I
>>> don't know if you take a look at it, this is the reason of this emai.
>>>
>>>   Have you find the same issues in empathy? Do you have any idea on how
>> to
>>> fix them?
>>>
>>> Thank you very much.
>>> ................
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>>  Same problem here. I've googled the problem and found it perhaps is
>>  not FreeBSD specific. Many empathy users on Linux platforms have
>>  reported similar problems. And my solution is to use net-im/emesene
>>  for MSN messaging ... though it may not be a perfect one...
>>
>>  It seems this has something to do Empathy dealing with MSN protocol.
>>  It uses a Python library to do the job (the same one Pidgin uses for
>>  MSN) but unfortunately the library does not agree with empathy in one
>>  way or another...
>>
>> --
>> If you have watched a TV series only once, and you watch
>> it again, it will be a rerun of the same episode.
>>
> 
> You're right, there are other platforms that show the same problem. I tried
> the solutions they report, but none worked on my installation, that's what
> make me think that this could be freebsd specific.

Can you try with papyon 0.5.2 (recently updated).  This fixed a rather
nasty bug.  I'm getting much further along in MSN connection now.

Joe

> 
> It looks like we'll have to wait for the next release of empathy. Meanwhile,
> I'll take a look at emesene.
> 
> Thank you!
> 


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