[Rahg99]

hi in last days microsoft messenger blocks again de mac.com accounts, but this time you can connect as always you do, but this time if someone on your friends on your list contacts try to send you a message, that friend recive a message like this: " the message cant be delivery to the user", and infact you never recive that message, but you can watch you contacts list normaly as always and if you start the conversation, there´s no problem at all, the sevice works well as always for 15 minutes, after that the service gets block again.

i want to know if some other mac.com user have this trouble too and if you knows if microsoft say something about it

[moonmonkey]

I don't think you can use mac.com accounts with Microsoft messenger?
Can anyone advise?

[C.A.T.S. CEO]

Originally Posted by Rahg99 

hi in last days microsoft messenger blocks again de mac.com accounts, but this time you can connect as always you do, but this time if someone on your friends on your list contacts try to send you a message, that friend recive a message like this: " the message cant be delivery to the user", and infact you never recive that message, but you can watch you contacts list normaly as always and if you start the conversation, there´s no problem at all, the sevice works well as always for 15 minutes, after that the service gets block again.

i want to know if some other mac.com user have this trouble too and if you knows if microsoft say something about it

You can't get a MSN account with .Mac. What client are you using?

[Art Vandelay]

You can use any email address as your MSN Messenger, Windows Messenger, Windows Live Messenger, "whatever name they're going to change it again to" Messenger userid.

I use my .Mac email address as my MSN Messenger account name and I'm experiencing the same problem. It's been going on for about a week now.

[TETENAL]

What client are you using?

[Art Vandelay]

It fails on Adium 1.2.1 - 1.2.3, MS Messenger for Mac 6.0.3, Windows Live Messenger for PC, and their web client. This with multiple computers and networks.

This isn't the first time that .Mac account names have been broken by MS. What's interesting is that each time .Mac account names cease working correctly, other non-MS account names continue to work.

[seanc]

Indeed, I'm having no issues with @hotmail addresses, when they eventually sign in.
I wonder what MS do that breaks @mac addresses.

[Kenneth]

I had no problem signing in with my @mac.com address with Adium 1.2.3.

[Art Vandelay]

The problem isn't signing in this time. It's sending messages to .Mac account names.

[Kenneth]

Now I know what you mean. My bad, I have problem sending message to anyone on my contact all day.

[Art Vandelay]

I don't know about anyone else's experience, but MSN Messenger is the most unreliable system I've ever experienced. It is extremely rare for me to ever have a problem with Yahoo IM or AIM. I hate that I have friends that use it and therefore I have to use it to connect with them.

[Art Vandelay]

Off topic...

Kenneth, make it ok through the sbux layoffs last week?

[msuper69]

Originally Posted by seanc 

...
I wonder what MS do that breaks @mac addresses.

if right(loginname,8)='@mac.com' then do screwdotmac

[Kenneth]

Originally Posted by Art Vandelay 

Off topic...

Kenneth, make it ok through the sbux layoffs last week?

Not a biggie for me.

[remster45]

For three days, I've searched and searched and I finally found this forum. I have to say that I am disgusted with Microsoft. At least I'm glad that I'm not the only one affected by this. But this has got to stop. What is Microsoft trying to prove by blocking @mac.com accounts? It's SO FRUSTRATING! No-one on my contact list can send me messages and they just blame me because I have a mac e-mail account. MSN Messenger is the ONLY Microsoft-related thing that I use, only because here in Canada, EVERYONE uses it, which is why I have no choice.

Is there any idea if this will be solved?

[Art Vandelay]

Originally Posted by Kenneth 

Not a biggie for me.

My partner made it through unscathed too.

[- - e r i k - -]

The whole of Live has had problems of late. I couldn't sign in to MSN even this morning.

Electronista | Microsoft's "Live" services suffer random outages

[Art Vandelay]

Saw that too but, unfortunately, I don't think it's related to this. This problem has been going on since the beginning of last week.