On 29 Oct 2003, H M Kunzmann wrote: > What you've told me is that the apt rpm's DO work and that my problem is > obviously one of a specific configuration. > > Do you know if gaim ssl uses a different port ? If so, what port is it ? > I reside behind pretty heavy firewalls, maybe that is the problem. Heavy firewalls are pretty often the reason for such breakage. As far as I know, msn works over port 1863 to messenger.hotmail.com, so try conencting via telnet to this port [achitnis@wookie] ~# telnet messenger.hotmail.com 1863 Trying 207.46.104.20... Connected to messenger.hotmail.com. Escape character is '^]'. ^] telnet> close Connection closed. If that fails, then you clearly won't be able to connect directly, and your sysadmins are probably blocking MSN traffic. If you have an http proxy handy, you can try configuring gaim to use that proxy (if you dont have a proxy at hand, try http://www.findproxy.com for one), by opening the Tools>Accounts>(Your MSN Account)>Show More Options>Proxy Options and selecting HTTP proxy options. That *may* work. Tschuess! Atul -- Linux Bangalore/2003 - India's biggest Open Source event December 2-4, Bangalore, India http://linux-bangalore.org/2003 ------------------------------------------- Atul Chitnis | achitnis@xxxxxxxxxxx Exocore Consulting | http://www.exocore.com Bangalore, India | +91 (80) 344-0397 ------------------------------------------- -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
