MSN 'unable to retrieve MSN Address Book'

[Tony Manco]

Ananda Samaddar wrote:
> Hi all, long time Pidgin user here having problems with connecting to
> MSN.  The error message I get is as the subject suggests:
> 
> 'unable to retrieve MSN Address Book'.
> 
> I've got no idea why this is happening or how to fix it.  I've already
> Googled the error and it seems like I'm not the only one having problems:
> 
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?s=7a8b67cacd0eda7cc9d9ba4facdc9eb6&t=1037515
> http://forums.mactalk.com.au/13/65221-msn-refusing-log-adium.html
> 
> This seems to affect all libpurple based clients including Adium.  I've
> already had a look at the mailing list archives and no-one seems to have
> posted about this issue.  It seems to have started occurring literally
> in the last twenty-four hours as well.
> 
> thanks,
> 
> Ananda

I can confirm this...