Please help

[Daniel Atallah]

On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 9:46 AM, Faizel Martin<faizel at bjpsa.co.za> wrote:
> Yes I’m using Mxit on my phone…but Pidgin is the updated Mxit PC version

No, Pidgin isn't the updated Mxit version - Pidgin is a multiprotocol
IM client that a Mxit plugin exists for.

You'll need to install the Mxit plugin (from here:
http://devzone.mxit.com/libPurple/) and to select that protocol for
your account.

-D

> -----Original Message-----
> From: daniel.atallah at gmail.com [mailto:daniel.atallah at gmail.com] On Behalf
> Of Daniel Atallah
> Sent: Thursday, July 09, 2009 3:36 PM
> To: Faizel Martin; support at pidgin.im
> Subject: Re: Please help
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> On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 9:11 AM, Faizel Martin<faizel at bjpsa.co.za> wrote:
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>> From: daniel.atallah at gmail.com [mailto:daniel.atallah at gmail.com] On Behalf
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>> Sent: Thursday, July 09, 2009 3:03 PM
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>> Subject: Re: Please help
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>> You didn't answer the most important question (about the protocol).
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>> On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 9:02 AM, Faizel Martin<faizel at bjpsa.co.za> wrote:
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>>> I have my same username and password as on my phone
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>>> From: daniel.atallah at gmail.com [mailto:daniel.atallah at gmail.com] On
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>>> Sent: Thursday, July 09, 2009 2:54 PM
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>>>> My computer crashed and I had to download Pidgin again. But now I cant
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>>> -D