Mac: Messenger Issues

Use Adium.
http://adium.im/

 

It seems that nobody wants to talk to you nah just kidding

Looks like a server problem, have you tried going Online and see what happens?

 

Just use another messenger , aMSN , Adium or Mercury =/ I see no clear solution for your problem

 

Same exact thing is happening to me!

Like the OP, I can sign in but it signs me out pretty quickly... and my list looks just like that, with not one single person online when they really are.

Does anyone know a solution to this? MSN Messenger installed when I put Microsoft Office on here. If I uninstall MSN Messenger, will that negatively affect the other programs like Microsoft Word and Powerpoint, etc.? Can I do that?

 

you'll be fine, it's just Microsoft trying to shove everything they can offer you down you're throat all at once.

 

Honestly man, I was like you... I hated Adium too but after giving it a try I was able to replicate Mac:Messenger.

When you first install it, it sucks... but you gotta put the addons in (which don't slow down the program at all), such as:

Real MSN emoticons (Animated as well)
MSN Plus extention (gives ability to send/save custom emoticons)
MSN-like theme
MSN Sounds

Not only that... there's offline messaging and the program is way more stable than that bloated MS crap.

Being very OCD, I think I've managed to do the best replication of Adium.

Hope this helped.

 

hello, not sure i should start a whole new thread about this or not so i'll just post it here.

lately my msn has been constantly showing 'signing in' and it will never sign in or stop trying to. this means my msn messenger application is constantly open and it ignores my attempts on shutting it down or even, force quitting it. i've even tried deleting it but it wouldn't let me because msn is supposedly running.

this means i haven't been able to turn my mac off in the past two weeks, when it started happening. does anyone know what i could do? i'm getting on a plane in a week and i can't even turn my mac off! even when i let the battery run out, my computer will go on standby because msn is on