i heard that if the server is blocking the MSN connection . we can use the proxy SOCKS 4.0 or 5.0 or HTTP Proxy config to connect to the base server . i am wondering , how can i do that in MAC msn ? or Adium ?

er....i dun think you can. your office net access is thru proxy server right?
my office, everything is thru proxy server and they blocked all chat sites, facebook and what not. no way to overcome it.

use e buddy lo?!!

try laa gtalk ...


perhaps it could bypass the proxy

even meebo is block??

my senior is using the msn in their PC .
they said need to use MSN 7.0 ... not 7.1 or 7.2 or anything .
and the setting of SOCKS 4.0 5.0 or what need to change ... use manual setting... or use HTTP setting.

just use meebo.com I'm sure it won't blocked

Meebo too can be block, banning url access.

in that case, use web proxy la.. Btw, i'm not sure how to get proxy for msn or adium proxy setup. For webproxy, you can just google it.

Just set the proxy in your system preferences. It goes system wide. So after you've done that, adium should work. Though, your company might block proxy servers too

This post has been edited by darkcurse: Sep 6 2007, 10:27 PM

try https://www.meebo.com/ . always works for me in malaysia's largest telcos premises. i always lepak at their server rooms and such. they've blocked meebo.com in the network.

This post has been edited by izaman: Sep 6 2007, 10:33 PM

but for Web Msn ... can wor ... so i think http proxy can lah .

I dono you get my message or not. I'm talking about web proxy. I'm not sure about company, maybe only for big company, like my university, it using its own proxy. So, you can only online by using university proxy. Once you change to other proxy servers in your system perferences, it won't work la. Only web proxy can work.

i got a similar problem...
in my college... i can log in my msn in winxp throu parallel...

but both my mac msn messenger n adium cant work...

anyway to fix it?

or this problem is related to the above mentioned?

Yeah I was talking about using web proxies. You have to set it up in your System Preferences. Now you got me confused. Let me clarify my post then. Unlike windows, where you have to set up proxies in individual programs, in OSX you set it once in your system pref's and all programs will follow. Unless your company/university blocks proxy servers as well then this method will work for you. If not, then you're out of luck. When I'm on my universities network, I can sign in to MSN and Yahoo messenger through Adium. But I can't connect to iChat because they block ports which is another thing to be wary of. Now that, can't be circumvented unless you use a http tunneller.