Google Talk to MSN

[ChO₂]

MSN doesn't support this natively which is Microsoft's fault.

Of course, you can use a gateway service, but you'll need to use another
client to set it up since Pidgin only supports _using_ Jabber/XMPP
transports but not transport _registration_. In addition to that,
transports have some drawbacks (security: the gateway can read your
(MSN) password and your conversations, reliablity: MSN + the gateway +
your Jabber/XMPP service need to work, feature set: gateways will
usually only support a subset of the protocol's feature set, usability:
You need a MSN account) which are why I neither use Jabber/XMPP
transports nor recommend doing this.

I recommend that you use Pidgin's own MSN implementation rather than
using a gateway.

If you have a Yahoo account, you can talk to MSN users from Yahoo, but
this bridge is still having some issues when used with _Pidgin_
(messages get lost in certain circumstances and you can't add buddies
through the bridge).

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht --------
Von: David H. Vree <david.h.vree at gmail.com>
An: support at pidgin.im
Betreff: Google Talk to MSN
Datum: Wed, 27 May 2009 13:03:15 -0400
Mailer: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090409)

Is there a way in Pidgin to allow a google talk account to talk to MSN 
contacts?  I can't find anything on Google Talk to allow this directly.  
Or do I need to use a Jabber/MSN gateway of some kind?

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