Hi. Just thought everyone would like to know. If you use centericq for instant messaging and you have a lot of friends you can't convince to give up the ubiquitous MSN instant messenger, you may have noticed that the author of Centericq has thus far decided to avoid potential legal trouble by not providing support for the new MSN protocol. This of course causes problems for those of us who unfortunately need to connect to this service, that is until now. I have found the solution to this problem, and it works great for me, though it is a little involved. I will explain. If anyone is familiar with Jabber, you probably know that some servers run gateways to verious instant messaging protocols. Fortunately for us, the gateways that connect to MSN STILL WORK. At least one that I found at JID msn.gate.amessage.de works. The involved part comes in now, because Centericq doesn't allow for registration of gateways (also called transports.) The good news is that there is a command-line Jabber client out there called imcom. If you don't want to look for it, I have it at ftp://prince.homelinux.org/software/imcom-1.32.tar.gz Just setup a Jabber account either through Centericq or through Imcom. Then in Imcom, log into your account and type /agenthelp msn.gate.amessage.info and simply follow the prompts. Then type /quit when you get the IMCOM> prompt and restart Centericq. You will then get a lot of authorization requests from your MSN contacts. Just accept all the authorizations by pressing "a" on each one. You are now back on MSN. I do hope this helped those of you who needed it, as I asked the question about this earlier and no one including me knew at the time that this would work. P.S. This will work no matter which Jabber server you have your account on. Prince
