Hotmail/MSN Account on iChat??

I've been using Adium for my hotmail/msn email account because I didn't like the program Microsoft supplied (Microsoft Messenger), but then I switched to aMSN because that let you have a personal message and view other people's personal message. So I like Adium and wish that it had MSN personal message support, and I dont like aMSN's grapical design.
_*Can you use iChat as a Microsoft Messenger alternative, (like Adium and aMSN)????*_
+I have tried but I cant figure out how to do it...+
Thanks for the help,
Michael (looking to be the next Apple CEO, I'm the perfect age 14. I'll take over at 30 when steve retires)

http://allforces.com/2005/05/06/ichat-to-msn-through-jabber/
9:09 PM Sunday; September 30, 2007

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Can I use my msn account with ichat?

I tried to connect to my msn account via Jabber, but the connection to the host : "hotmail.com" failed!
What happened?
Its the same thing for a google talk account!!!
( I didn't try with an AIM account because I don't have one but i think it should be the same )
Just an other question : do all Mac owners have an @me.com adresse and how to obtain it?
Last question : can we use Skype accounts with ichat?
Thank you all

Hi,
AS your other post
http://allforces.com/2005/05/06/ichat-to-msn-through-jabber/
10:44 PM Sunday; May 17, 2009
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MSN Account on Ichat

Hey guys,
I am running a MSN account using gmail. Is there anyway to use Ichat to talk to all my contacts on normal MSN Messenger (There has not been a release for MSN Messenger for Mac 10.5 yet and the older one has flaws).
Thanks

is it possible to set up a jabber on a PC, then use it to setup Ichat on a Mac?
i'm finding it rather difficult to setup a jabber thing, and all the support on the internet is all for the PC based versions of PSI

Can I add my MSN contacts to iChat using my .Mac account?

I was wondering if there is anyway to add my MSN contacts on to iChat using my Mac account. I know that it is possible using a Jabber account and using my MSN account on iChat, but since I am paying for a .Mac account I might as well maximize its capabilties.
Please help,
shivsensarma

You can not add MSN Buddies to the AIm Buddy List.
You can however create a Jabber ID and then with a Third Party App link to what is called a Transport that will connect you to the MSN Service for Text Only chats.
Read the first two links in this section
http://www.ralphjohns.co.uk/page5.html#_jabber
The third link is the most up-to-date List of Jabber Servers with Transports I have found.
I may receive some form of compensation, financial or otherwise, from my link to my website.
9:23 PM Monday; March 31, 2008

ICS and Hotmail/MSN Server Deletion Issues

Hello all,
I am posting here after not finding an answer to my question. I am an active member on 3rd party forums and asked my question, but no help received.
Here is my problem. My hotmail/msn account will sync fine with my phone, but when I delete an email on my phone, it deletes the email on the server (well reloates the email to a POP folder). This was NOT the case with gingerbread. This is an account I share with my wife as our family email address, and it is not ok to delete it when my wife does not see it. It is also not convenient to move the email to a POP folder. I need to be able to delete emails locally on my phone only, with no deletion occurring on the mail server.
I have tried removing/reinstalling, using the hotmail app, and manually setting up the email account. With none of these helping I decided to bite the bullet and restore the phone....oh gawd, just a waste of 2 hours with setup.
Any help would be appreciated here, as my contact with Verizon yesterday yielded no results either. If any of this makes no sense please let me know.

Hello there Jaingo,
I totally understand the need of saving those e-mails. I found some helpful information on how to delete e-mails from device but not off server. Follow this link to find out how: http://www.midcocomm.com/resourcecenter/index.cfm/645/MidcoNet-Xstream--Email/Email-Setup---Droid-Razr
Let us know if the issue persists.
Thank you,
Lena A.
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Help setting up Mail - to work with my MSN and Hotmail email accounts.

Can you walk me through the entry steps in setting up Mail to recognize my MSN and Hotmail email accounts. I don't know how to do this. Please keep it simple, what entries I need to make, screen by screen. I'm indebted to you.
Jim

Hi,
First of all you might want to double check the settings you are using for the POP3 account in Mail with Microsoft's instructions:
http://windowslivehelp.com/solutions/settings/archive/2009/01/06/send-and-receiv e-windows-live-hotmail-emails-from-a-mail-client.aspx
Chris

Can I configure a Msn account in my iChat?

Hi,
Can I use my msn account in my iChat?? How do I configure it?

Niel's Link is fairly clear but here is another http://allforces.com/2005/05/06/ichat-to-msn-through-jabber/
10:42 PM Wednesday; August 6, 2008

Ichat with msn account

I have heard that ichat can be used with my msn account. Is this true? And if it is, what do I have to make it work.

At the moment no. If yu want to use the isight with msn use amsn.sourceforge.net
Bear in mind though that amsn doesn't support audio. For a full featured isight usage without going through ichat you need the skype video preview (http://www.skype.com/download/skype/macosx/videopreview.html). But it's not msn!

Use ichat access msn account

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Use Google Account in iChat ?

I have signed up to a Google account (don't mix this up with Gmail account) using my .me.com email which i would like to use in Google Talk, i can signin using my web broswer and accept friends as well as chat.
I am trying to add this to iChat and tried a number of times it does not let me sign in when i add the account via iChat. The eaisest thing is possibly just to sign up to a Gmail account but we all know what Gmails availablilty is like and that means signing up to an account something like [email protected] I would like to use on email for everything and I've spent hours scrolling through web forums to try and find the answer. I am thinking there must be a way as in Google's blog it did say that google talk is now availble to non Gmail users.
I have also tried signing in to iChat with an old Gmail account and it works no problems....
So my question is it possble to use iChat using a Google Account that i created using my me.com email address?
Really noping someone can provide me the answer

Hi,
People that have
[email protected]
as their Buddy name are likely to be runniing a Jabber server.
iChat can join the AIM Service with valid AIM Screen Names.
These can come from a variety of sources:-
AIM (In fact any Company that AOL owned that offered an Name at one stage, such as Netscape, Compuserve 2000 AOL and AIM itself)
Apple IDs ending in either @mac.com or @me.com (Passwords need to be 16 characters of less. Later iCloud issued @me.com names only work in iChat 6 or later )
Email IDs from ISPs that have an agreement with AIM like Apple do.
Note: You can actually register any other email at AIM - and use an @googlemail.com name if you wished (or a Hotmail one and so on).
Jabber Service Names come from server.
Lets take Jabber Australia as an Example.
You register a Name (simplyliam) and you become [email protected]
There are many Public Jabber servers as you can see in this List
Essentailly you become the [email protected]
Both Facebook and Google run a Jabber server. Both need you to enable Talk or Chat in your account settings in each site.
Note: Google only do this Publically for their Mail Account names (i.e the names can be used in other apps like iChat/Messages)
Google also do not stick to the naming format (their server name is talk.google.com) which is why it is a separate entry in iChat.
You can add Buddies that are AIM valid to an AIM valid Buddy List.
You can add Buddies that are valid over Jabber to the Jabber/Google/Facebook name List.
Although the naming formats for both include email looking IDs and will therefore be accepted in a List the Buddy will always look Off lline.
NOTE: I have seen cases where people have registered their GoogleMail ID was an AIM Name and they appear as AIM Buddies (I have also seen Hotmail email names registered the same way even though they are also MSN names).
It is so long ago that I set up my Google mail account I am not sure what email I may have used as a secondary contact address or Confirmation email address.
(EDIT:- I looked it up and it was a dial-up account I had before that).
As I said before, at one time you could add other types of Google account by entering them as a plain Jabber Account and then changing the server name in the iChat > Preferences > Accounts > Server settings tab to google.com
This has not worked for about a year.
So there is no way to Login to GoogleTalk without it being a GoogleMail name (No matter what ID was used to create it.)
There is also no way to have the @me.com name appear instead of the Google name. (well, unless you typed in that your first name was simplyliam and your last name was @me.com when you set the account up).
Whist a Google Name of any sort that looks like an email ID can be registered at AIM as a Screen Name it will mean that the name is an AIM Name and still would not be able to directly contact Jabber/Google/Facebook Buddies in iChat.
I have tried to show with examples that what you wnat is not possible.
However the broad way AIM allow other Email IDs to be used /registered as AIM valid names can supply a sort of work around in one direction (getting everyone on AIM) it does not work in ther direction you seem to want it (Somehow to use either a Non Googlemail Name or a AIM name over Google/Jabber).
Although this may not be the answer you wanted I hope I have been clear enough.
8:54 PM Sunday; February 19, 2012
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MSN account on the Mail App.

I have a MSN/Hotmail email account and that is my main e-mail. When i tried to add in on my mail app it says secure connection failed and that my e-mail may not be valid (when it is). from there i click continue, and a window says that it can not get mail "user name or password for "pop3.live.com" is incorrect. i click OK. i click save under the POP setting and another window comes up that says this account may not be able to send or receive emails are you sure you want to save. I clicked no. and chose the IMAP. it thinks for a while then says IMAP account verification failed. The IMAP server "pop3.live.com" is not responding. check your network connection and that you are entered the correct information in the "incoming mail server" field. When my connection is fine and the correct info is entered.
HOW CAN I GET MY MSN/HOTMAIL ACCOUNT GOING ON THE MAIL APP??!!

The free version of Hotmail does not support POP or IMAP access, so you can't use the Mail app.
If you have a paid version that does support POP (I'm not sure if such a plan even exists), then I would recommend contacting MS's support people for your plan.

Can't make an account for ichat, can't make an account for ichat

Hi
I just bought me a new macbook pro and i wanted to use ichat.
The problem is, I can't make an account to use it.
I just have hotmail.com accounts, and it doesn't work on ichat.
And i fail in making an account that is compatible for ichat.
Can you help me ?

Hi,
In iChat 4 there was a Get an iChat Account Button that linked to the @mac.com registration page (when you selected @mac.com in the add account drop down)
In iChat 5 this had an option for the AIM Option to link via the same button to the AIM registration page.
Then AIM moved their Registration page.
For iChat 5.x.x. Apple have since disabled the Button (or pointed it to s different page saying the service has sort of ended)
The Button is not there in iChat 6
The @mac.com registration Page is Here
This allows you to link an external to Apple email ID to an @mac.com name (It is sort of Hard Linked so you can only use this Email once this way)
You cannot use an Email already Linked to an Apple ID.
The Password you create here must not exceed 16 characters (AIM Server limit)
The Name is both Apple ID and AIM valid Screen Name.
A name create here will work in any version of iChat.
iCloud.
You can create a iCloud ID and this will end @me.com
Again the password should be kept to 16 characters max.
You can link existing Apple IDs to this as the creation process but again this "Hard Links" the emails
iCloud does allow you to create IDs from scratch (i.e with an email not already used with an Apple ID)
These names will only work in iChat 6 or Messages beta or Above (there's bound to be an "Above" at some stage as they say Messages will be in Mountain Lion)
AIM registration page is here
This can create any ID you want (it says it will be @aim.com but your don't enter this Suffix)
You can use a secondary email for Password recovery and confirmation as many times as you want.
The password is limited to 16 automatically
You an in fact list any existing email as the AIM name (I have seen both Google mail IDs and Hotmail IDs as AIM Screen Names and technically it is possible to use an Apple name/ ID and the Name at AIM - most times it will tell you it is already in use)
9:53 PM Friday; April 6, 2012
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Nokia Messaging: MSN accounts not working

I have some MSN accounts and I cant sync in Nokia Messaging since last Monday.
This is the same problem as the Hotmail accounts?
Nokia N8 / N9 / Lumia 920 White

I cannot sync my phone with Nokia messaging service since 01/10/09. Recently, I got a message from Nokia that Nokia Messaging Service Trial period is going to be over on 30/09/09. So, now NMS is not working. Does anyone have same situation. Does anyone know when it is going to start working.

How to make an account in iChat with Apple ID but no .mac?

Hi everyone,
my Apple ID is my email adress but not ending with @mac.com or @me.com. How can I make an account in iChat with my Apple ID without making an extra ID with an @mac.com name?
Thanks

Hi,
An Apple ID that you may use for Logging in to Discussions to Post and may also link to your iTunes account and the Apple Store purchases is not the same as an Account/Screen Name for iChat.
@mac.com names were at one time given out when you purchased the .mac service (predecessor to MobileMe).
However trial versions on .mac allowed the name to work in iChat after the trial was up (As well as Lapsed Paid for ones)
The Email services stopped at the end of the trial or if you stopped paying for the service.
However when MobileMe started and replaced .Mac people could elect to keep their @Mac.com names
Therefore @mac.com name may or may not be valid email addresses.
Since then Apple have allowed new @mac.com names to be created to use as free iChat names (not valid Email Addresses)
Apple names ending @mac.com and @Me.com (MobileMe) are valid AIM screen Names in iChat. (Agreement between Apple an AIM)
(MobileMe is free during the trial period but requires Credit Card up front and Active discontinuation before the Trial is up and also does not work after the Trial is cancelled)
You can also Use AIM names Register here
These tend to not have any @something.com suffixes.
You can also use any GoogleMail ID if you enable Talk on your Google account.
Using a third Party Jabber app you can register a Jabber ID (Also looks like a email address) as most Jabber servers doe not have Web Browser accessible registration pages.
Summary.
An Apple ID created to Login into Discussions is unlikely to be linked to iChat.
(it can be done as you say with @Mac.com or @Me.com names)
An Apple ID can be linked to iTunes and for making On-line Store purchases.
There are options to creating an iChat ID.
AIM would most likely suit you needs of not having an @mac.com or @me.com suffix
Jabber names look like Email Addresses but rarely work as such with the exception of GoogleTlak/GoogleMail IDs
NOTES:-
A GoogleTalk or Jabber ID can add Jabber or GoogleTalk Buddies but not those that Login to AIM.
A Valid AIM Screen Name can not have Jabber/GoogleTalk Buddies added to it.
An AIM valid Screen name could be from AIM or Apple (@mac.com or @me.com) or from any other ISP AIM has an Agreement with for using their Email Address.
This last part means you may see Buddy's screen Names that have other @ type suffixes
In fact the AIM Registration page allows you to use any Email as the Screen Name (I have seen a Hotmail one used)
This means as both AIM and Jabber use names that end @server(mail or otherwise).com/net/whatever as there can be some confusion when adding Buddies to a Buddy List.
I hope I have been clear enough.
10:31 PM Sunday; September 12, 2010
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I have added my hotmail email account to my ipod but when I open/delete emails it is not syncing with my computer. What can I do so that when I delete emails from my ipod, they show up as deleted when I access hotmail from my computer.

I have added my hotmail email account to my ipod but when I open/delete emails it is not syncing with my computer. What can I do so that when I delete emails from my ipod, they show up as deleted when I access hotmail from my computer?

If you like to set up the Hotmail account as an Exchange account, see this Apple support document.
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