I recently have problems when trying to log in to my MSN account from OS X Leopard. I tried to add my account to Adium, where it worked the 1st time and then on the following boots it just keeps trying to connect without any success. So I installed Messenger:mac in hope it would work better, but the same issue. The 1st time it worked and now, when I wanted to launch it again, it gives me the error message:
Sign in to Microsoft Messenger failed because the service is not available or you may not be connected to the Internet.
Thx
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Does no one have an answer to this problem?? It still doesn't work. In the meanwhile I tried the following things (with no success):
- complete reset of Adium
- upgraded to the latest beta version of Adium 1.4.b8
- downgraded to Adium 1.3.0 (due to a forum post which claimed MSN works on this version)
- Tried to access with different Windows Live accounts (no success while they work on Windows)
- Completely disabled the Firewall
- Tried to access web messenger (at people.live.com) which worked just fine (also services like Meebo work).
What I found is that if I start Adium with all Live accounts disabled and I log in to webmessenger, then it notifies me that I'm signed in at 2 places. If I shutdown Adium it doesn't... ?!?