Comment 2 for bug 677739

I do have the same issue here. I am also using @gmail.com email on a Maverick AMD64.

Traces done with wireshark shows that MSN server return an server error response. So I imagine this bug is similar to this one (663670)

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POST /abservice/abservice.asmx HTTP/1.0

Content-Length: 1779

Proxy-Connection: Keep-Alive

SOAPAction: http://www.msn.com/webservices/AddressBook/ABFindAll

Host: contacts.msn.com:80

Accept: text/*

User-Agent: gnet/0.1 (Linux x86_64)

Connection: Keep-Alive

Cache-Control: no-cache

Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8

Accept-Encoding: gzip

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
...
HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error

Connection: keep-alive

Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2010 20:07:57 GMT

Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0

X-Powered-By: ASP.NET

P3P:CP="BUS CUR CONo FIN IVDo ONL OUR PHY SAMo TELo"

X-MSNSERVER: BY2ABCHWB365

X-AspNet-Version: 2.0.50727

Content-Encoding: gzip

Cache-Control: private

Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8

Content-Length: 512
...

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