[Gllug] Gaim setup - yahoo & msn

Simon MORRIS simon.morris at cmtww.com
Thu Feb 5 08:30:03 UTC 2004


On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 11:11:08PM +0000, Will Napier wrote:
> Hi, long shot, but does anyone know how to setup Gaim for msn and yahoo? 
> I have just successfully done so for icq, because there are instructions 
> on the gaim site for that. What would the screenname and alias (in gaim 
> terms) be (in yahoo and msn terms)? Thanks for any help
> 
I read somewhere a while ago that both Yahoo and MSN had changed their
protocol specification, which broke gaims functionaility.

I'm now using gaim to connect to a jabber account, which has a MSN
gateway, and can IM people from other systems.

http://www.jabber.org for more info

HTH
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