unable to authenticate

[Nicholas Toll]

Hi David,
Thanks for your help.
I have downloaded  pidgin 2.7.7 but it says I need a PEM certificate.
How do I download one? it still says MNS disabled, authentication
failure.
Thanks,
Nick


On 01/12/2010, David Woolley <forums at david-woolley.me.uk> wrote:
> Nicholas Toll wrote:
>
>> I have been receiving pop ups saying there is a problem
>> authenticating, I have just installed pidgin on a new pc and have put
>
> Authenticating with what?
>
>> in my account name but it says account disabled, unable to
>> authenitcate. My username is nicromaxx at msn.com.
>
> I guess you mean MSN.  Your account name is of no use to the supporters
> of the open source Pidgin IM client and Microsoft would not support you
> for problems encountered with a client they say you should not be using
> (they have a small number of named clients that they permit).
>
> You will need to give all the normal debugging information, including
> the version of Pidgin and the contents of the debug log.  As this is a
> public mailing list, make sure you obscure any passwords.
>
> Note that Microsoft made a very recent change, which requires that you
> use at least version 2.7.7 of Pidgin, to avoid a certificate problem.
>
>
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> David Woolley
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