Cannot setup messages in Yosemite

Hello,
I installed Yosemite onto my Macbook Air (from late 2010) last night, and have been trying to setup messages. When I open the messages app, it asks me to login with my Apple ID, which I do, and then it tells me "Your Apple ID "******@gmail.com" can't be used to set up iMessage at this time. This is the same Apple ID I use on my iphone (5, running IOS 8.1) and I have used it for a long time. I turned off Imessage on the phone and then back on again, as another forum had said to do, and that did not work. Any suggestions? Thanks so much.

Hi,
If the Apple ID and the password you use with it at Apple work on an iOS device but not on the Mac for the iMessages account then contact Apple Support and explain you have an Account issue with the iMessages servers.
They should then be able to fix it for free.
They may try to redirect or say that it is an Apple Care issue with Software or Hardware and try and charge you if you are outside of your Apple Care period.
If this happens ask to speak to a Level 2 person who can then sort the issue for you.
There are other known issue regarding iMessages logins to the iMessages server using working Apple IDs (or iOS devices) from the Mac side of things.
8:51 pm Saturday; November 8, 2014
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