Emesene Not Connecting? Here’s A Quick Fix

By , Published November 8, 2011

The developers of popular third-party MSN client ‘emesene’ have warned that some users may experience login issues with the stable version of the client.

The issue results from a change to the Windows Live Messaging service, which has rendered many third-party applications unable to connect.

“There have been some changes in Live Messenger servers which broke most of unofficial Live Messenger clients. We are currently investigating the issue and provided a temporary workaround that seems to be working for most of the people.”

A temporary solution for ardent users is to download and run a recent development snapshot of Emesene from its archive folder (extracted folder > emesene > double click on the ‘emesene’ file and choose ‘Run’) until a fix-release can be issued.

Download Emesene Snapshot

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  • Conscious User

    Solved the problem for me and it doesn’t need to be installed, you can simply use the shipped executable directly.

  • David Gomes

    This is also affecting Empathy and Pidgin for me…

    • https://launchpad.net/~afccarl1994 Carl Ansell

      ‘The issue results from a change to the Windows Live Messaging service, which has rendered many third-party applications unable to connect.’

      Empathy and Pidgin are third-party applications too.

    • http://twitter.com/marcusklaas MarcusKlaasDeVries

      Same here. Unlikely that fixes will reach ubuntu end users soon. I have found that it takes A LONG TIME before upstream updates get released to ubuntu users. Take Transmission for example. It was ported to GTK3 months ago. I just updated my system and its still using GTK2 :S

      • Bart Willemsen

        Critical issues like this get fixed pretty fast. They are ofcourse a higher priority than GTK3 support in Transmission.. :P

        • http://twitter.com/marcusklaas MarcusKlaasDeVries

          I really don’t think it is a priority thing, as adding a new version to the repository isn’t really a demanding action. I guess it has something to do with ubuntu policies or something.. Anyways, still no patch for empathy as of today.

    • Parry

      Affected emesene and empathy for me. But my Pidgin works normal for some reason.

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jeremy-Newton/512458865 Jeremy Newton

      That’s It! I’m moving to jabber

  • http://twitter.com/edconocerte EDC

    Yeah! more information in the oficial blog: http://blog.emesene.org/2011/11/emesene-is-unable-to-connect.html

    Greetings!

  • Freddi

    What about empathy not connecting (to FB)? Has someone experiences or solutions?

    • Glaasje

      yeah, i had that problem too. :)

    • http://openid-provider.appspot.com/souobadaro Red_Acid

      To everyone who’s having problems with Empathy connection to  Windows Live Messaging service, check out this bug report -
      https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/papyon/+bug/887349
      There’s a patch and you can even install the fix with a deb. ;)

  • http://twitter.com/ux92 uvazquez

    Too bad emesene2 sucks in comparison to 1.6.3, and I don’t think they will be porting the resolution to 1.6.3… :(

    • Anonymous

      yeah , I still love 1.6.3 but the problem when using unity is if you closed the main windows it’s gone and I can’t figure how to open it again >_<

      • http://twitter.com/ux92 uvazquez

        I think it’s in the chat menu (the one beside your name in the top panel).

  • Anonymous

    does someone know how you can put new emoticons in the chat ? before i make always in emesene 2.11.7 new emoticons and now in 2.11.9 i cannot.
    if i make with number i click and the emoticon don,t appear .
    maybe someone knows.

  • http://twitter.com/Sindare195 Mark

    It works on Ubuntu 11.10 64 bit

  • http://twitter.com/lu_rodrigo Dive into Luiz

    Since yesterday I couldn’t connect to kopete too, so I’m using aMSN for now. Luckily it’s still working as usually.

    • daas88

      Is it still being developed? :o

  • Sashin Ranasinghe

    They should totally release a fix for Empathy as well!!! Preferably after my exams though.

  • Ryan Farmer

    ‘The issue results from a change to the Windows Live Messaging service, which has rendered many third-party applications unable to connect.’

    That seems to happen a lot with proprietary protocols.

    Proprietary messenger services have been breaking their protocols just to prevent competing messenger applications from using them for years. Going back to AOL trying to stop Trillian from connecting to their servers.

    I say, take the hint that they don’t want you using better software than theirs that is open source and doesn’t have ads covering 90% of each window, and use an open protocol like XMPP.

    I switched from MSN a couple years ago, the last thing I ever sent over their network was an “If you don’t want to get XMPP, I don’t want to talk to you anymore. MSN is too much of a PITA to bother with” message to all my contacts, and I haven’t signed in since. Most of the people I talked to frequently got an XMPP client in the end.

    Not only will Microsoft keep sabotaging competing messenger software, they don’t document any of their protocol, so what you do have has been reverse engineered and is incomplete and is never on par with the official MSN client.

    One last thing, it’s in the Terms of Service for MSN Messenger, that by signing in, you agree not to use competing software. It is Microsoft… ;)

  • Sebastiaan Franken

    There is a fix for this. I had the same problem and this is how I fixed it:
    Open the file /usr/share/pyshared/papyon/service/AB/__init__.py and comment out line 23. Replace it with this:

    url = “http://local-bay.contacts.msn.com/abservice/abservice.asmx”

  • http://twitter.com/ux92 uvazquez

    I solved it on emesene 1.6.3 by replacing all “contacts.msn.com” with “local-bay.contacts.msn.com” in files “requests.py” and “templates.py” located in /usr/share/emesene/emesenelib/soap (using sudo as it needs to be done while being root).

    However a friend of mine tried it but it didn’t work for her, too bad. But it’s worth giving it a try.

    • sergio molina

      i try it and works partially now can login but the list of contacts don’t load

    • Gustavo de Andrade

      Thanks!

  • César Suárez Ortega

    emesene 1.6.3 fixed version: https://github.com/csuarez/emesene-1.6.3-fixed

  • http://twitter.com/DanielHellier Anom

    Run the following for a quick fix.

    sudo killall telepathy-butterfly
    sudo dpkg –purge telepathy-butterfly
    sudo apt-get install telepathy-haze

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_FSSPKP5ZZRPQQZ7M2TUXKZYLX4 Jorge

    Affected emesene and empathy for me. But my Pidgin works normal for some reason.

    The fix change line 23th in .py, only allow connect but don’t allow show avatars and in empathy dont work video and voice chat.

  • Gustavo de Andrade

    I create a debian package with the solutions found here : http://dl.dropbox.com/u/35310981/atualizacao-emesene_1.0_all.deb

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_FRQJSQIY45Y32N2TYAACW2XZ4A Ricardo

    New Emesene? version 2.11.11

    $ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:emesene-team/emesene-stable
    $ sudo apt-get update
    $ sudo apt-get install emesene python-xmpp

    I like simple things :)-

 
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