MSN
Did you know about the dedicated MSN section of the KDE wiki?
Yes, it's full of useful and up-to-date information about the development of the MSN plugin for Kopete. It's at
http://wiki.kde.org/tiki-index.php?p...N&comzone=show in case you didn't know.
I AM behind a firewall. Which ports need to be open for MSN file transfers?
If you are behind a firewall, port 6891 needs to be open to inbound TCP traffic.
I can't connect with MSN using Kopete 0.8.0 or 0.8.1, or I connect and get disconnected again straight away. What's up?
MSN have been 'migrating accounts' on their servers. This changes all the group numbers that organise your contacts, and so the next time you connect with Kopete, everything is broken. Upgrade to Kopete 0.8.2. If you can't upgrade, you can work around it by deleting $KDEHOME/share/config/kopeterc and $KDEHOME/share/apps/kopete/contactlist.xml. Note that you will lose contacts that are not stored on the server, eg. for ICQ (in some cases) or IRC. So moving those files aside is better than totally deleting them, that way you can add the contacts again.
Why can't I change my display name in MSN? Whenever I try to I get an 'Error 715' error message.
Error 715 means your MSN account's email address has not been validated. Go to
http://www.passport.net and validate your email address, or enter a valid one if you made yours up. This error has been given a proper error message in Kopete CVS (to become Kopete 0.9), but we can't backport it as it introduces a new string to stable KDE, which would not be translated.
I can't connect to MSN with Kopete 0.7.2. I thought this version was meant to fix the MSN upgrade messages, not break it entirely!
Running some kernel called 2.4.22something? Kopete normally sends the kernel version to the MSN server as a user agent, but the MSN server can't handle words in there. So put on your best grin and fake it - add the following to $KDEDIR/share/config/kopeterc, in the [MSN] section: UserAgent=0x0409 winnt 5.1 i386 MSNMSGR 5.0.0 MSMSGS . This way you look like a windows box and the server lets you connect.