Google Talk to MSN

[David H. Vree]

Thanks for the useful information. I really don't like the idea of a 
bridge, so I guess I need an MSN account just to contact my friends 
there. Just another great reason to not like Microsoft.

ChOv(2) wrote:
> 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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