Empathy (MSN) unable to connect

[Harald Servat]

2010/11/9 Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at freebsd.org>

> 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!
> >
>
>
> --
> Joe Marcus Clarke
> FreeBSD GNOME Team      ::      gnome at FreeBSD.org
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> http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome
>


Ok, I'll give a try when I'm in my FreeBSD box.

Thank you!

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