meaning of message unclear

[John Bailey]

On 07/05/2010 01:27 AM, André wrote:
> hello
> Up to now I've only used Pidgin (and Gaim before) with Yahoo Messenger,
> without any problems.
> All my contacts have been with Yahoo.
> I'm trying to add a contact with a hotmail.fr address,

MSN addresses must be added to Yahoo accounts as, for example,
"msn/user at hotmail.fr" in order for Pidgin to pick up that it is an MSN user.
Otherwise, Pidgin assumes the user is a Yahoo Messenger user, which is obviously
wrong in this case.

John

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