Re: OT:MSN and Gaim

From: John Eggert (finarfinjge_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 10/17/03 

Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 18:16:21 -0400

Stefan Johansson wrote:

> *** Hoogendijk wrote:
>> quoting words of Todd Stephens:
>>
>>>Yevgen Muntyan wrote in article <bmkp8t$dh2$1@news.tamu.edu>:
>>>
>>>
>>>>it does not help, but...
>>>>http://gaim.sourceforge.net/msn.php
>>>
>>>I guess it finally happened today or yesterday, as I know I was on
>>>there Monday. Oh well. Time to make ICQ my primary I guess.
>>
>>
>> You could try *amsn* which supports the new login protocol (v9) and let
>> me login normally just now. Gaim still doesn't and even lacks the msn
>> protocol fully in the new version. (hope they're working on it)
>>
>
> I can login to msn just fine with Gaim (version 0.70). You do need one
> of the latest versions with SSL support enabled.

If gaim is installed from ports, the default install as done by:

cd /usr/ports/net/gaim
make install clean

will NOT work with MSN. To get MSN to work, use the following (see the
Makefile for more information. Also, there IS info at the sourceforge site
and the changelogs.)

cd /usr/ports/net/gaim
make WITH_GNUTLS=yes WITHOUT_NSS=no install clean

Check the distinfo file to be sure you have 0.70 or higher.

And seeing as this relates directly to a FreeBSD port and installation, I
think it is safe to say it is no longer OT.

JE