Problems Connecting MSN with empathy

Question

I don't know if I am the only one with this bug, but I can't use my MSN account with a freshly installed Ubuntu 11.10 with Empathy. It used to work with my Arch Linux, but now with Ubuntu, it continuously tries to connect but nothing happens.

How can I solve this problem?

score 19 · Accepted Answer · edited Oct 26 '17 at 23:35

Without uninstalling anything, you can fix this by changing a line in the file /usr/share/pyshared/papyon/service/description/AB/__init__.py.

Edit it as root by running:

sudo -H gedit /usr/share/pyshared/papyon/service/description/AB/__init__.py

Change line 23 from this:

url = "http://contacts.msn.com/abservice/abservice.asmx"

To this:

url = "https://local-bay.contacts.msn.com/abservice/abservice.asmx"

Or to this:

url = "https://local-sn.contacts.msn.com/abservice/abservice.asmx"

Reboot and test it, it's working for me!

score 2 · Answer 2 · edited Feb 25 '12 at 11:32

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Just open the terminal and enter this command:

sudo apt-get install msn-pecan

Then after it finishes installing, choose msn-pecan for your email instead of MSN messenger and it will work.

edited Feb 25 '12 at 11:32

jokerdino

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answered Feb 25 '12 at 07:11

Bilal Jaber

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score 2 · Answer 3 · edited Jan 27 '12 at 13:59

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sudo apt-get remove telepathy-butterfly

Remove your MSN account and add it again, it worked for me.

edited Jan 27 '12 at 13:59

Yi Jiang

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answered Jan 22 '12 at 20:43

Mazen

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score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Nov 08 '11 at 14:05

1

This happened on my PC at the weekend. I disabled the account, waited 10 seconds and then re-enabled the account. MSN network connected straight away.

answered Nov 08 '11 at 14:05

Phil Hannent

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Problems Connecting MSN with empathy

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