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Some of my friends use MSN Messenger or Windows Live Messenger. Now I am aware of a variety of clients for OSX but I haven't been able to find one with the following abilities:

  • accept / receive file transfers
  • receive and send messages from contacts who are invisible (appear offline)

For example On Adium when an invisible contact messages me the message is sent successfully but never arrives on my end.

edit: I also tried aMSN unsuccessfully. Also I'm not sure if sending messages to contacts that appear offline is classified as offline messsages?

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If they are classified as offline messages I believe only the native MSN client will work since the offline messages are most likely stored on MSNs closed servers. – Stefan Thyberg Jul 24 '09 at 12:33
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Edit: Have you tried the official Microsoft Messenger:mac 7?
Its description sais it supports file transfers. Don't know about the offline messages though.

Otherwise I don't think what you want exists. aMSN will come closest to what you describe. The problem I think is that Microsoft created their own 'protocol' regarding file transfer and offline messages. I even think the Microsoft servers (which are closed) are used as a middle-man for those things.

I think you will have to resort to other "more open" ways of dealing with those problems.

Possible alternatives:

  • file transfers: e-mail, dropbox
  • offline messages: e-mail
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It seems that since the last update to messenger mac the missing functionality has been added, thanks microsoft to helping me move away from windows. – svandragt Jul 28 '09 at 12:36
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I suggest trying out Digsby, the functions you mention work fine for me on Windows but I am unable to try it on a Mac since I don't have one.

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Digsby is currently not available for mac. It says 'coming soon' on their website. – EvilChookie Jul 25 '09 at 20:11
Sorry, just looked at their homepage and couldn't imagine that they'd put up download icons for Mac OS X when it wasn't even available for it. – Stefan Thyberg Jul 26 '09 at 12:36
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Have you tried trilian Astra? They recently reseased a build for OSX. It does everything you want and more.

http://www.trillian.im/

A quick blurb on the program...
http://www.trillian.im/learn/

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