pidgin using excessive bandwidth with msn accounts

[David Woolley]

On 18/11/14 03:47, Ook wrote:
> Pidgin 2.10.10 on linux, and I think 2.10.9 on windows.
>
> I noticed today that when any msn account logged in, pidgin will sit
> there and consume 200k-300k of bandwidth, even when idle. I disabled the
> msn accounts, and the bandwidth consumption dropped to zero. This
> started a few days or so ago (that I noticed) on all of my computers,
> both linux and windows.
>
> Anyone else seen this?
>

Please look at the recent postings to this mailing list and see if your 
problem is consistent with the other problems resulting from Microsoft's 
change to authorised clients.

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