[Kopete] MSN protocol changes

fabio

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Friday, March 19th 2004, 11:10am

A few days ago MSN made significant changes to its protocol, and many third parties clients, like Kopete, were made unable to login and whether they could, they can't see any online user in contact list.

The issue has been resolved by other third parties client developers, like Miranda IM MSN plugin, another free GPLed project under Win32 platform.

I ask when Kopete developers will make available a new Kopete release or patch in order to have MSN functional again.

Thanks for the attention.

FYI: using Kopete 0.8.1 / KDE 3.2.1 / Fedora Core 1

Regards,
Fabio

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seb

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Friday, March 19th 2004, 11:42am

Funny, i am still using msn on Mandrake 9.2, kde 3.2.1, kopete 0.8.1 and i am having no problems connecting

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hotsnail

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Saturday, March 20th 2004, 8:07am

SInce a cople of days I am allso having troubles with Kopete and MSN. When I log on on first start I get the following message:

Niet afgehandelde MSN-foutcode 224.
Deze foutcode is niet bij Kopete bekend. Om ons te helpen Kopete verder te verbeteren zou u een bugrapport kunnen sturen met een beschrijving van wat er gebeurde, en als het kan een stukje van de laatste uitvoer op de console.

If I try to remove a contact the connection is lost, and if I try to log on again kopete crashes... (not allways, but way to often)

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seb

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Saturday, March 20th 2004, 8:19am

Care to post that in English?

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djtrippin

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Monday, March 22nd 2004, 8:24am

No problems with msn here either.

Simplicity is the staple of the working man.

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superstoned

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Tuesday, March 23rd 2004, 9:55am

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Original von hotsnail

SInce a cople of days I am allso having troubles with Kopete and MSN. When I log on on first start I get the following message:

Niet afgehandelde MSN-foutcode 224.
Deze foutcode is niet bij Kopete bekend. Om ons te helpen Kopete verder te verbeteren zou u een bugrapport kunnen sturen met een beschrijving van wat er gebeurde, en als het kan een stukje van de laatste uitvoer op de console.

If I try to remove a contact the connection is lost, and if I try to log on again kopete crashes... (not allways, but way to often)

I'll try to translate the error (dutch too ;-)):
not-managed MSN errorcode 224.
This errorcode is unknown to Kopete. You can help us enhancing Kopete by sending an bugreport with an description about what happened, and, if possible, including a part of the last entry's on the console.

hope it helps...

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WSC-fsl

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Wednesday, March 24th 2004, 4:14pm

March - 24

I have been using kopete 8.0 - Rpm package from Mandrake 10 Community

Had no problems until today. Now kopete crashes everytime MSN makes a connection. Nothing has changed on my computer. I simply fired up kopete the same way as I have been and BAM! ... kde crash dialog box. Eager to find a solution!

Thank You

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djtrippin

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Wednesday, March 24th 2004, 9:07pm

Try deleting you $HOME$/.kde/share/apps/kopete directory and restarting kopete, You will have to redo all your configurations but for some reason this seems to clear up all problems that pop-up for unexpected reasons.

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WSC-fsl

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Wednesday, March 24th 2004, 9:39pm

Thank You,
Now that I think on it...I have resolved issues such as these in the same manner in the past. I haven't gotten a chance to see if this fixes it but I will be trying it tonight and will post again.

***Quick Note***
From this I went looking for updates for Kopete...in particular I am still interested in the 0.8.1 release if someone can stear me in the right direction. Because of my frustration with kopete I became more experienced with Mandrake urpmi system and managed to configure rpmdrake (update) with a cooker site. ... Didn't fix the issue but I did learn about urpmi and anything you learn from can't be all bad....even system crashes! :wink:

Thank you again for posting an intelligent reply!

fsl

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WSC-fsl

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Thursday, March 25th 2004, 3:48am

Alright, feel this one out...

I took your advise about deleting the kopete folder...actuallly before I did that I fired up the root account and configured kopete...The overall line of thought is that, rather then delete my kopete folder, setting up kopete in root will do basically the same thing... No avail! It still crashes as soon as I try to connect to msn. Bummer! I am digging through forums and log files as we speak. I really apprecaite the help I am receiving. Like I said, it worked yesturday. Hell, it worked this morning

fsl

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seb

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Thursday, March 25th 2004, 3:58am

have you tried using another application, like gaim, kmess or kmerlin?

this will tell you if the problem is to do with kopete or something external, such as your ISP (blocking the port?) or your computer.

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WSC-fsl

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Thursday, March 25th 2004, 4:04am

Hey Seb,

Good thought but I'm sure thats not the case. I am dual booting Mandrake with Win. on a small home network. Yes I sit behind a router but I am port forwarding all neccessary ports right through. Trillian in Win. works fine. I am going to try for KDE 3.2.1 upgrade, so get used to hearing from me ... ha ha...

fsl

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djtrippin

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Thursday, March 25th 2004, 9:02pm

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From this I went looking for updates for Kopete...in particular I am still interested in the 0.8.1 release if someone can stear me in the right direction.

As far as I can tell 0.8.1 is just an update to assure everything works correctly with KDE 3.2.1. It can only be aquired as part of the kdenetwork-3.2.1 package.

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WSC-fsl

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Thursday, March 25th 2004, 11:54pm

Thanks for the info...
With the help of Seb...I am installing kde 3.2.1 using konstruct. I would tell you how it works but it is STILL GOING!
**NOTE TO FORUM**
When someone says "it will take a long time" ... think ... Days... not hours!
HA HA HA :lol:
This forum rocks!

fsl

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djtrippin

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Friday, March 26th 2004, 8:55pm

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but it is STILL GOING!

Well, compiling the souce of an entire DE does take a good chunk of time. What is the speed of your processor and how much ram do you have?

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WSC-fsl

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Friday, March 26th 2004, 9:25pm

I'm running a 1.2 with 512

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mitrado

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Tuesday, March 30th 2004, 10:07pm

MSN is strange ...

Hi there!

I've been using Kopete (MSN account) and I noticed something really weird...

Theres a "Individuals" group where newly added contacts appear, if I delete this group (I used MSN 6.1 to do this at university), leaving those contacts outside any group, Kopete refuses to stay connected from that moment forward!!!

So, I returned to windows and recreated the group and moved the contacts once again ... and surprise: Kopete works once again!!!

Is this strange or what?? Microsoft protocols are the weirdest of all!!!

See ya! Hope this helps anyone!

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WSC-fsl

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Tuesday, March 30th 2004, 10:29pm

That is weird.
But I have never used MSN messenger ever. So I don't think it was at all the cause of my problems. However https support makes a difference!

fsl

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ricoderks

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Wednesday, March 31st 2004, 10:15am

Hi,

I'am running suse linux 9.0 with kde 3.1 and yesterday also on my computer kopete 0.8.0 couldn't connect to the msn network anymore. I removed my account and then added my account back and now it connects again! :? I had this problem also with an older version of kopete, if I remember correctly with the 0.7.4 version. After updating to 0.8 it worked fine for a few months.

Cheers, RICO.

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Tux

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Wednesday, March 31st 2004, 11:45am

Kopete MSN protocol behind Firewall

Hi every one,

I have the following problem: my computer is behind a firewall. If I boot under windows and run MSN Messenger, it can connect to the server but if I use kopete it fails to connect. It is for sure a problem opening port. can we configure kopete to run on the same port as MSN Messenger ?

I thank you in adance for your replies

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