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Kopete - unable to connect to MSN with 0.8.2 v. on KDE 3.2

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arielrobaldo

Beginner

Posts: 6

Saturday, June 26th 2004, 8:45pm

Kopete - unable to connect to MSN with 0.8.2 v. on KDE 3.2

Hi,

I'm facing some kind of problem I could not yet identify.
Installed Kopete (default version with Fedora Core 2) and tried to connect to MSN.
My account settings (user/password) are ok, I have no firewall up yet, but it does not connect (does not initiate session and throws an error like "conection time expired..").
Same problem happens with two other clients (gaim-amsn), so it seems to be a problem between my linux and MSN.

Is there any particular package required for this to work that I missed?

Thanks a lot for your help.

Ariel

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m4ktub

Intermediate

Posts: 257

Location: Lisbon, Portugal

Occupation: Software Engineer

Monday, June 28th 2004, 1:43am

You can try to use "netstat --inet -p | grep kopete" (not sure about this) to show what connection kopete is trying to make.

Maybe some configuration setting is leading them to a wrong server.

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arielrobaldo

Beginner

Posts: 6

Wednesday, July 7th 2004, 3:42am

thank you, I did what you recommend and got this output:
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[ariel@todos ariel]$ netstat --inet -p | grep kopete
(Not all processes could be identified, non-owned process info will not be shown, you would have to be root to see it all)
tcp 0 1 todos.silari.org:32938 messenger.hotmail.:1863 SYN_SENT 2609/kopete
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It seems to me that the server is not fully correct, do you know how to set it to messenger.hotmail.com or the correct one?

Regards
Ariel

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m4ktub

Intermediate

Posts: 257

Location: Lisbon, Portugal

Occupation: Software Engineer

Wednesday, July 7th 2004, 10:05am

I don't know if this works bu try to put the following line in the file '~/.kde/share/config/kopeterc' in the MSN Protocol section.
[code:1]PluginData_MSNProtocol_serverName=messenger.hotmail.com[/code:1]

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arielrobaldo

Beginner

Posts: 6

Wednesday, July 7th 2004, 2:39pm

Hello,

I tried the change and did not succeed, I copy here my kopeterc with the suggested line, do you see any other parameter that should be changed?
*********************************************
[Account_MSNProtocol_arielrobaldo@hotmail.com]
AccountId=arielrobaldo@hotmail.com
AutoConnect=false
PluginData_MSNProtocol_serverName=messenger.hotmail.com
PluginData_MSNProtocol_exportCustomPicture=
PluginData_MSNProtocol_serial=0
Priority=1667457387
Protocol=MSNProtocol
RememberPassword=false

[Away Messages]
No estoy=Ahora no estoy, pero volverÃ© mÃ¡s tarde
Ocupado=Lo siento, pero ahora estoy ocupado
Titles=Ocupado,No estoy

[HTML Settings]
AutomaticDetectionLanguage=0

[Plugins]
kopete_msnEnabled=true
***********************************************
Thanks a lot in advance.

Regards

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arielrobaldo

Beginner

Posts: 6

Wednesday, July 7th 2004, 2:42pm

Oops!

In my last post I didn't state that the output from de "netstat...." command remains the same than before adding the line to kopeterc file.
Regards