cannot login to MSN using iChat

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  1. aldorande, Apr 2, 2010

    aldorande macrumors member

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    I'm using Mac OS X 10.6.2 and I think that was working in the past: I used to be able to chat with my MSN contacts.

    Now I get this error

    iChat can't communicate with the jabber account "...@hotmail.com".
    The operation couldn't be completed. Operation timed out

    I checked my password, and it is correct. I can check my Hotmail emails using those credentials.

    I didn't change the server settings as well.
    Any other ideas?
     
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  2. mwxiao, Apr 2, 2010

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    MSN is not a jabber account. iChat itself doesn't support MSN account. You have to google some work around for it to work. But it still has lots of problems.
     
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  3. instaxgirl, Apr 2, 2010

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    Adium is an excellent IM application for mac that supports MSN (and a whole host of others including facebook chat).

    Give it a try, easier than trying to get iChat to work.
     
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  4. aldorande, Apr 2, 2010

    aldorande thread starter macrumors member

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    I know Adium, but that's not what I want. I prefer to get Apple iChat to work.

    I am sure at 90% that I was abler to get it to work some days ago. I don't know if some Mac OS upgrade ****ed that up. And I didn't need any MSN Messenger, Psi or Adium for that.

    can anybody confirm that I didn't dream? is anybody using MSN IM through iChat?

    Edit: in the meanwhile I downloaded MSN Messenger for Mac and that is working. But I like the "All in one app" concept, that's why I'd follow up on that.
     
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  5. stu212, Apr 2, 2010

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    You just dreamt this. It's not possible at all and never was. It has never worked only if you use psi and the jabber workaround.
     
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  6. hassoon, May 10, 2010

    hassoon macrumors regular

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    msn on ichat ?

    hi i'm new to the mac world! is there anyway that i can open my hotmail account on ichat?! if you wanna suggest any mac app please let be safe . thank you !
     
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  7. InfoSecmgr, May 10, 2010

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    Either this was a sarcastic post or there is all kinds of things wrong with it...
     
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