About 3 weeks ago, pidgin stopped connecting to the MSN network and I get the "Connection error from Notification server:
Connection refused" message. This issue occurs in both my Ubuntu 12.04 machine and my WIn7 machine. Trillian on my windows machine connects just fine to MSN, so I dont suspect a network issue.
My settings are: messenger.hotmail.com
Port: 1863
Proxy type. Use environmental settings
The "use HTTP method option results in it actually trying to connect, but it never does, it just says "connecting…..". I have attempted to change just about every other setting, with no luck.
What could be going on?
Best Answer
If I were to guess, I'd say it stopped working slightly more than 6 weeks ago, when the MSN messenger network was closed down, so I don't know what Trillian is connecting to.
Microsoft wants you to move to skype, which is available for ubuntu, and you should be able to log in using the same microsoft account and find all your friends still there.