Ichat with an email only .mac account?

Is it possible to use an email only .mac account with ichat? I have tried to look in this forum, but all I could find referenced aliases, which I know you can't. I have also done Google searches and talked with other ichat users, some say yes and some say no. I have tried repeatedly to set up an ichat account using my email only .mac account but with no success so far. Am I doing something wrong, or is it truly unable to be done?
Thanks,
Eric

It has to be a Full paid for account, A lapsed account or a trial Account (which will be able to work after the sixty days).
It can not be a sub email account.
9:11 PM Sunday; October 21, 2007

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