[Gllug] Gaim setup - yahoo & msn

Ian Norton bredroll at darkspace.org.uk
Sun Feb 8 19:41:57 UTC 2004


On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 08:30:03AM +0000, Simon MORRIS wrote:
> 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
> 
I use both methods. the newer versions of gaim can support the msn/ssl system
now,

Ian



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