cannot add buddy at all...

On Thu, 2008-10-16 at 12:03 -0700, Evan Platt wrote:
> xrysa wrote:
> > I go to the buddies list , I choose "add buddy" ,it appears a cerd , i fill in the gap ''buddie's screen name'' by writing the email adress with which the person i wanna add uses msn(when i had windowsxp i used to chat through windows live messenger and some of my contacts were transferred automatically in pidgin ,yet some not...)and appears the following message : "Could not add buddy <email address hidden> to group Buddies to the server list on account xrysamara."
> >
> > Why????
> >
> Because <Something>@yahoo.com isn't a MSN name, it's a Yahoo name, so
> you'd add it using Yahoo, and you'd omit the @yahoo.com.

You can use other domains as MSN Passport accounts, and thus use them
with MSN Messenger. As this is yahoo.com, I'm not sure if the problem is
related to the Yahoo Messenger integration.

Is this contact using MSN Messenger or Yahoo Messenger on their end?

Richard

THank you very very very very much for your quick answer!yet...I want to ask again..what do you mean by saying that "you'd add it using Yahoo, and you'd omit the @yahoo.com. "?I clicked on buddies again , selected the option "add buddy"and then ....didnt know what else to do..and now if i put for example <email address hidden> , now it just put the name of the buddy down on my list of buddies and their status is : not on sever's list...
That means that now we're able to chat or not?
Sorry for the stupid questions i use linux only for a little while and of course I am far away from being an efficient computer user...So forgive my stupid questions..

xrysa

I didn't say that, that was quoted text. Someone else did, but their reply didn't make it here.

Anyway, you should answer my question: "Is this contact using MSN Messenger or Yahoo Messenger on their end?"

Well i dont know how i can see that..Nevertheless what i know is thathe same
problem appears even with users that enetr msn with a hotmail mail address.(
<email address hidden>).and sth important : The contact
<email address hidden> me that when using msn he could not see me
weather hen using yahoo
messenger we could talk perfectly we...

thank you very much for your answers..hope that in the end i'll figure out
what's happening...

2008/10/19 Richard Laager <email address hidden>

> Your question #48213 on pidgin in ubuntu changed:
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> I didn't say that, that was quoted text. Someone else did, but their
> reply didn't make it here.
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> Anyway, you should answer my question: "Is this contact using MSN
> Messenger or Yahoo Messenger on their end?"
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I have been having the same problem it turns out that this is a bug in Ubuntu linux. Edubuntu, Xubuntu, and Mythbuntu. We will have to wait for the huge release of Ubuntu linux 8.10 Intrepid. If you upgrade i can almost guarantee that this will fix your problems because Ubunut linux 8.10 has over 400 hot fixes with the release of version 8.10

Well .I dont know...Maybe you are right!Yet look what i did (a friend told me so) and my problem was immediately solved : I was entering pidgin only using my yahoo mail.A friend proposed to add my account of gmail as well and........all the contacts that I couldn't see before, suddenly appeared on my screen!!!!!All I had to do was create an account using a mail with a different protocol than yahoo....
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