Pidgin will not connect with hotmail account

[Chris Polson]

Binary package hint: pidgin

I have been unable to connect with my hotmail account through Pidgin, the GMail account will work. I have updated my Pidgin & reported this problem a few weeks back. Nothing has been resolved or fixed.
Thank you
chris

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Dec 22 20:52:12 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/pidgin
Package: pidgin 1:2.4.1-1ubuntu2.7
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: pidgin
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-26-generic i686

[Dave Walker (dogatemycomputer)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please answer these questions:

* Is this reproducible?
* If so, what specific steps should we take to recreate this bug?

This will help us to find and resolve the problem.

[J. Austin Rodriguez (jeanaustinr)]

We'd like to figure out what's causing this bug for you, but we haven't heard back from you in a while. Could you please provide the requested information? Thanks!

[Chris Polson (cpolson91)]

all is working fine. been connecting for several months.
thank you

> Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2010 14:17:26 +0000
> From: <email address hidden>
> To: <email address hidden>
> Subject: [Bug 499668] Re: Pidgin will not connect with hotmail account
>
> We'd like to figure out what's causing this bug for you, but we haven't
> heard back from you in a while. Could you please provide the requested
> information? Thanks!
>
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> Pidgin will not connect with hotmail account
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/499668
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[J. Austin Rodriguez (jeanaustinr)]

Thank you. We will now close this bug report and marked it as fixed. For future reference you can manage the status of your own bugs by clicking on the current status in the yellow line and then choosing a new status in the revealed drop down box. You can learn more about bug statuses at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Status . Again, we appreciate your time reporting this bug and helping make Ubuntu better.