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Updated May 20, 2012 by felipe.contreras

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In order to use msn-pecan you need to create a new account and choose WLM instead of MSN.

Alternatively you can modify one of your MSN accounts and change the protocol to WLM.

That's it. Enjoy :)

Also: HowToInstall.

Comment by liuml07, Feb 15, 2009

East to use. Good work, man!

Comment by gespa...@gmail.com, Feb 24, 2009

I got login error when I tried WLM... but I can login perfectly using MSN. Please, help me.

Gregorio Espadas gespadas@gmail.com

Comment by t.arnfeld@gmail.com, Mar 7, 2009

Hey Have just installed your plugin and have had no probs, it logged me in ok and all :) One question, how do you set your personal message?

Comment by ocherka...@gmail.com, Mar 10, 2009

The same login problem as with MSN plugin (reading error or something, HTTP proxy does not help). Trying to disable WLM crashes Pidgin 2.5.5 on Windows. The only way to disable plugin is to remove dll file and remove the account after Pidgin restart.

Comment by kim...@gmail.com, Mar 13, 2009

WLM has an nasty bug with invisible mode. Can't send any messages if the MSN account has been turned invisible anytime.

Comment by profesor...@gmail.com, Apr 8, 2009

the next modification pdria ser editar las convers, o aplicar los codigos BBCode

Comment by dr...@c.dk, Jun 3, 2009

I can't get the direct connection working, I've enabled it, but it's still slow - no, it's not because I'm behind a router and so on, I'm positive.

Comment by project member felipe.contreras, Jun 6, 2009

The router should not affect if the other side has direct connection and can act as a server (official MSN client).

Comment by timothyw...@gmail.com, Jun 13, 2009

still not able to connect, connection errors as same as before plugin install. Guess I will stop fighting the big M and install messenger, as much as I hate to. My laptop has little screen real estate the way it is, not to mention the extra Memory load.

Comment by project member felipe.contreras, Jun 14, 2009

@timothywcrane have you filled a bug report? ReportingIssues

Comment by patricia...@gmail.com, Jun 18, 2009

Thank you for making this. :D It's very much appreciated.

Comment by rich.m.w...@gmail.com, Jul 16, 2009

Thank you very much. I cannot stand Live Messenger with all its ads and gooey GUI

Comment by crashena...@gmail.com, Dec 17, 2009

What version of Pidigin does this require? I tried installing this on Pidgin 2.5.6 and I do not see a WLM option. Windows XP SP3, libmsn-pecan.dll is present in the Plugins folder.

Comment by huang.k...@gmail.com, Dec 20, 2009

I cant use it to connect MSN throw WLM protocal, it show me "the account is not accepted", but throw MSN protocal on pidgin 2.6.4

Comment by project member felipe.contreras, Dec 20, 2009

It seems the latest release doesn't work properly on Windows. Will be fixed on 0.1.0-rc2.

Comment by crashena...@gmail.com, Dec 24, 2009

Unless the 0.1.0-rc2 is still in development, I'm still not getting a WLM option after installing it. Same specs as I posted above.

- and I do use and love this plugin on Ubuntu, I just want to do the same in Windows...

Thanks.

Comment by project member felipe.contreras, Dec 25, 2009

@crashenator you should report a bug, in there you must provide the log of running pidgin from the command line, and it would be really useful if you could check the dll with http://dependencywalker.com/

Comment by antonis....@gmail.com, Jan 7, 2010

pidgin crashes as soon as I log in(debian testing)

Comment by project member felipe.contreras, Jan 7, 2010

@antonis please follow ReportingIssues

Comment by verfasse...@gmail.com, Jan 16, 2010

Pecan uses the same ports as MSN correct? So we can't route through another port?

Comment by project member felipe.contreras, Jan 17, 2010

@verfassergeist I don't know what you want to do; the ports are on the server side, many clients can connect to the same port

Comment by pla...@gmail.com, Jan 20, 2010

I've set the account to use WLM now instead of MSN but pidgin just crashes with a segmentation fault every start-up without fail.

AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4200+

Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic

Pidgin 2.6.5 libpurple 2.6.5

Comment by otarol...@yahoo.com, Jan 28, 2010

I'm having the same problem that plazia have, some body no which is the issue,

Comment by project member felipe.contreras, Jan 28, 2010

plazia, otarola: file a bug report... see ReportingIssues

Comment by fernwehe...@gmail.com, Mar 15, 2010

I just installed this but WLM is not showing up as an account option for me...

Comment by gwfu...@gmail.com, Mar 28, 2010

Hi there, i had same problem plazia had... Pidgin crashes with segmentation fault, only if the WLM account is enabled at start. Pidgin version is 2.6.2 and i'm using Ubuntu UE. Could you put here the link of the bug if its already reported so we can take a better look at this?

Comment by mikerjoh...@gmail.com, Mar 31, 2010

Just installed for Windows version 2.6.6 and works great so far. Was seeing an issue where an MSN contact showed offline in Pidgin, but in Windows Live Messenger they were online. This plugin fixed the problem. Thanks!

Comment by ringil.s...@gmail.com, Jun 7, 2010

This is a really helpful plugin :)

Comment by kozha...@gmail.com, Jun 17, 2010

Great plugin! Thanks

Comment by lauritag...@gmail.com, Sep 11, 2010

Hi, i've installed the plugin and changed the protocol to wml but when i tried to log in i've got an error: "The email address or password is incorrect." i checked this and i'm pretty sure that the email address and the password are correct.

please help!!

hope you understand my poor english. thanks!

Comment by project member felipe.contreras, Sep 19, 2010

@lauritagme are you still experiencing that issue? If so, please follow ReportingIssues.

Comment by tintin...@gmail.com, Sep 28, 2010

Hi, I got this message in some of my contacts' chat window "You are not in XXX's contact list." Of course, I'm sure that I'm in their lists and vice versa. We also confirmed this with the live messenger. How can we solve it?

Comment by project member felipe.contreras, Sep 29, 2010

@tintin that seems to be a problem on the server, and one that Microsoft can't seem to fix even though they said it is... The plan is to just disable that on msn-pecan.

Comment by hackerbi...@gmail.com, Oct 25, 2010

seems to work great here :)

Comment by jero...@gmail.com, Nov 6, 2010

@liuml07 says: "East to use. Good work, man!"

@mikerjohnson says: "(...) Was seeing an issue where an MSN contact showed offline in Pidgin, but in Windows Live Messenger they were online. This plugin fixed the problem. Thanks!"

and i say thanks! :)

Comment by tseverin...@gmail.com, Dec 12, 2010

Works great. Thanks

Comment by lindaone...@gmail.com, Dec 12, 2010

Good work! Better than most of MSN plugins in Pidgin and even other IMs.

But I have strange issue. Sometimes ffter program restart some contacts appears blocked. And privacy settings always switch to "Allow all userfs from below" even if I change them.

Comment by young40...@gmail.com, Apr 2, 2011

Login failed. Got error message:Unable to authenticate: nexus stream error

Comment by aerial....@gmail.com, Apr 2, 2011

MSN pecan is unusable for me because I can no longer log in. I have the same error message as above (Unable to authenticate: nexus stream error). Pidgin's official MSN plugin works for me, though.

Comment by blutg...@gmail.com, Jun 16, 2011

MSN pecan is unusable for me because I can no longer log in. I have the same error message as above (Unable to authenticate: nexus stream error). Pidgin's official MSN plugin works for me, though but i and my contacts appear offline to each other

pidgin 2.7.11

Comment by was...@gmail.com, Jul 22, 2011

none of the msn pecan plugins for wintendo seems to work ;(

Pidgin 2.8.0 (libpurple 2.8.0)

Comment by VincentB...@gmail.com, Aug 16, 2011

Thank you so much! Here's a request, though: could you call the WLM protocol "WLM (Pecan)" instead so we know absolutely sure that's the right implementation we want to have? :)

Comment by nascent.mail@gmail.com, Sep 10, 2011

I've been suffering with libPurple on pidgin and no msn contact pics now for nearly a year. Today I discover msn-pecan, install it, and no more problem.

Why couldn't I discover this sooner‽


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