Help with Messages

[hipstep]

So I just got my first Mac and loving it. Its running Mountain Lion so I have the new messages and not Ichat like in the past. I have friends who use ichat still though and I would like to be able to talk with them over messages still. Is this possible because i entered in there @mac.com ID into there contact information and then it said unable to do send message. I tried googling and searching a few forums but nothing came up that worked.

 

[satcomer]

Then open System Preferences->Mail, Contacts & Calendar and add an AOL account. Then reopen Messages and activate that AOL account.

 

[Weaselboy]

Then open System Preferences->Mail, Contacts & Calendar and add an AOL account. Then reopen Messages and activate that AOL account.

Yep... then hit command-1 to bring forward the old chat window as it will be hidden my the new Messages window.

 

[hipstep]

Thank you very much. Got it working pretty much right away but I dont really know why since i actually tried that before without the cmd-1...