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~Goyen Dec 20, 2007, 1:06:06 PM
Since I upgraded to Leopard Adium tells me it can't connect to the MSN server. I've tryed downloading other Messengers and they work ok, but aren't anything like as stable or easy to use as Adium.

If anyone has experienced similar problems please let me know.

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~killyp Dec 20, 2007, 1:45:05 PM
Could be your Firewall? Go into Security in System Prefs, and choose the Firewall tab and add Adium to the list (if you want to keep it on). I've switched mine off because I'm behind a hardware Firewall all the time...
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~Goyen Dec 20, 2007, 2:51:32 PM
I'll try that - I don't think that is the problem because Adium work fine with GoogleChat.

Thanks anyway. I'll let you know if it works.
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~072570 Dec 20, 2007, 4:47:10 PM
If it's just MSN that's acting up, it could be the MSN servers - MS is always updating the protocol to try and stop 3rd party apps from connecting (meaning that developers have to reverse engineer the NEW protocol to get it to work, etc) or it could be that MSN is just flaking out, period.

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~Jaysgirl17 Dec 24, 2007, 11:59:06 AM
My adium was acting up .... if I finally got to log on, the buddy screen would just be blank ... wouldnt show any friends ... and it wouldnt let me do anything.

Had to sub it with Mac Messenger for now.

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~Goyen Dec 24, 2007, 12:56:08 PM
MSN works on aMSN and Mercury messenger (I hate the interface on them so I got rid of them), so I'm back on Microsoft Messenger.

Which I don't like...
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~trippingHEARTS Dec 24, 2007, 5:41:32 PM
Hello.
Sorry to butt in but does Adium support GoogleTalk?
I haven't heard of it before and wasn't sure how to get GoogleTalk on a mac.
do you know any sites that tell me how to set it up?
Currently I'm using Mercury but I'm going to switch to Adium soon.
Thanks.

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~Goyen Dec 24, 2007, 8:26:14 PM
Adium does support GoogleTalk and is extremely easy to set up.

In fact it's one of the best messengers around for Mac. Which is why I'm so annoyed about not being able to use it.

If you want GoogleTalk though, you can set it up in iChat, I believe.
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~trippingHEARTS Dec 24, 2007, 8:56:46 PM
Bummer, well I'm definitely going to try it out soon.
And I've tried to configure iChat for GoogleTalk but I don't think it worked because we only have dial up internet.
Thanks. :)

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~pigscanflyy Dec 29, 2007, 7:58:37 PM
found this on the adium forums, i just got a new macbook and i had the same problems, after doing this it worked fine (:

Try this:

1. Go to System Preferences.
2. Click on Network.
3. Click on Advanced.
4. Click on the DNS tab.
5. Click the + sign in the lower left of the window and add the following two DNS servers.
208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220
6. Click OK and close system preferences.
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