Apple Discontinues AIM Support for Many OS X Users With Legacy Mac.com/Me.com IDs

[Mac4Brains]

I remember iTools

I remember when I got the first model of the iMac flat Panel in 2002. I went to get a iTools account that summer. That was when Apple was just starting Dot-Mac. So I got the new Dot-Mac account, right when it first started, in a box form the computer store. I had to pay $99 for the box and another $99 a year for my email address (That doubled up as my business name since it sounded so cool) and a hundred megs of space on iDisk.

To this day I still have (my-email-address)@mac.com on all of my stationary and business cards. and allot of people still contact me on ichat/messages since apple piped their chat service threw AIM.

As long at my Dot-Mac email address still works, I will not panic.

 

[LimeiBook86]

I still use AIM with my Mac.com account, well at least I still was until the other day. I would have at least liked to be able to export my contact list from AIM. I have it to some degree within my Address Book. But there were specific contacts and information (block list, etc) in AIM which I kept separate from the OS X list of contacts.

Hopefully this service is patched or restored. I don't mind using another username... but I would have expected an email from Apple to .Mac/Me users about that. They have been pretty good communication wise in the past since the transition from Dot Mac, to MobileMe, to iCloud.

 

[zmunkz]

desolate wasteland

I logged into aim just to see what I would find. Hundreds of offline contacts, names I had forgotten I even knew, but nothing living whatsoever... I felt like the lone survivor of a nuclear holocaust.

 

[e-coli]

Time for them to move off of Cheetah. Tell them a 21.5" iMac with a 256gb SSD would cover them for the next decade and a half.

They're both using Mavericks, and have relatively new machines. Not sure what you're talking about.

 

[alvindarkness]

It's stopped working for me in Adium (Mavericks). Perhaps accounts are being switched off over time.

It stopped working for me in adium too, what I said was it continued to work as an AOL account in the imessages app (in mavericks) when you go to Messages -> Add account -> AOL. Try it and see what happens.

 

[haruhiko]

If this is true, they better not stop support for ICQ.....

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Do you have to have an AOL paid account for this?

In my part of the world, ICQ was huge (since 1996 until everyone switched to MSN in 2005 or so, and then Whatsapp in 2010). I still remember my ICQ number from 1996

 

[GDMcG]

Check your Server Settings in Messages AIM Account

I also could not connect using AIM even though I am running 10.9.4 - until I went into Messages>Preferences>Accounts>select the AIM account using the .mac or .me ID and click Server Settings - Check the Box to Use SSL and you should be all set. I was.
Maybe this will also work for Adium by forcing Adium to connect to the AOL servers (api.oscar.aol.com) using SSL, PORT 443

 

[Graig]

I tried with success the other day by creating a new aol account and actually logged in to iChat. Now it no longer will log in says password is not valid. Called AOL they say I have no account. Cant get a new one today as I don't have a cell phone and they default to requiring a cell number to complete signup. They did not the other day. This is more trouble than its worth. This is running 10.9.4. Never really used it anyway. I do like things to work though.

 

[Anonymous Freak]

One thing I hope they bring back with FaceTime is multi-person video chat. I miss that.