It seems like Microsoft has upgraded their MSN Messenger servers, and this seems to have caused that all 3rd party clients are broken.
You probably receive the error message “Unable to retrieve MSN Address Book” in Pidgin.
The solution for Ubuntu 8.10 people is to:
apt-get install msn-pecan
Restart pidgin, create a new account and in the drop down list of protocols, choose “wlm” for Windows Live Messanger, and plugin in your default/normal MSN account info.
This should put you online again..
Sighs, why doesn’t we all migrate to open standards and use XMPP?
EDIT: This fix seems to work for most of us, but sadly not everyone. (after what I have observed from comments online at IRC and so on..). It’s at least worth a try!
Adium/Mac users: Try visit http://adiumx.com/blog/2009/01/msn-rejecting-adium-132-connections/ for updated information. Solution for now is either to use Microsoft’s Official Messanger Client for Mac, or to use Adium 1.31. Anyway, make sure you visit adium’s own blog to keep updated on the issue!
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