empathy connect to msn (hotmail)

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On 07/28/2010 08:49 PM, L wrote:

>>>
>> Hi Your home network will be using Nat and perhaps this is not working
>> correctly.  You could manually set up a rule that forwards all incoming
>> traffic on port 1863 to your machines internal ip address:1863 and see
>> if that helps. :)
>>
> thanks, Yes, the adsl use NAT.

  This makes zero sense to me ... if pidgin connects and empathy cannot
it is a problem with empathy and/or its config.

  And why on earth would anyone advise to open up your firewall ? That
is never the correct answer ... please look elsewehere.

  gene