Can't sign into to Adium

[Khurram]

For the last few months I have not been able to sign into Adium and have been forced to use messenger instead.
I'm trying to sign in using a hotmail account. It used to work perfectly for me then after the update before 10.5.2 I think it just hangs on signing in.

Has anyone experienced anything similar?
I just got a MBA as well so I was hoping it was some software issue with my older macbook but now it's doing the same thing on the MBA right after a clean install of Adium's latest version.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks

 

[psantacr]

I have had no problems using MSN Messenger with Adium...

With 10.5.1 or 10.5.2. Both work perfectly.

Try removing all your accounts, then removing ADIUM's cache (/YOUR/HOME/DIRECTORY/Library/Caches/Adium) and creating the accounts again to see if that does the trick.

Good luck.

 

[Khurram]

thanks for the advice..
how do I remove the accounts though?

 

[psantacr]

thanks for the advice..
how do I remove the accounts though?

Adium Menu -> Accounts -> Account List...

That wil display all of your accounts.

Select the ones that you want to remove and click the "-" (erase) button.

If you haven't tried this, try a simple "Account Removal + Account re-creation" before doing the CACHE thing. This might be all you need.

Good luck.

 

[Am3822]

The latest release of Adium brought with it a few annoyances -- there's a certificate problem, for example, which prevents a problem-free log-in to gtalk.

 

[Hankster]

You may have to reinstall. I know I had small issues and I just started from scratch again.

 

[emdotdee]

I had a problem when i got my new iMac, adium just would not connect to hotmail or gmail so i went to the adium forum and got this little bit of info that solved the problem straight away, hope it works for you.....

1.1.4
OSX 10.5.1
linksys 54wrtgl

I was having the same problems as many others have reported on this forum. As Zac explained it has something to do with how 10.5 calls for the network through a router.

I tried adding entries to the hosts file, not sure why it didn't work - I thought it should have (unless MSN has changed IP's since that post), but it didn't.

My solution:

Visit the router's configuration page and make note of the DNS server IP's (there should be 2 or three of them). Each router will be different on how you need to access the info, so use google if you don't know.

Open network preferences, click on the connection you are using and select advanced.

Click on the DNS tab and add the DNS entries that you got from your router. (Your router's IP should already be listed there.)

You should now be able to connect.



Why this works: your computer will look for the address in the first address listed, for whatever reason it is not found in the first one, and because there are no other places to look it doesn't connect. Now that we have added 2 or three alternatives, if OSX can't find it in the first one (which we know it can't because of some new 10.5 problem) then it will look in the 2nd/3rd DNS server where it finds the info it needs to connect.


Hope this helps.