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+Protocol for the Miranda IM for communicating with users of

+the MSN Messenger protocol.

+

+Copyright (C) 2003-5 George Hazan (ghazan@postman.ru)

+Copyright (C) 2001-3 Richard Hughes (original version),

+

+Miranda IM: the free icq client for MS Windows

+Copyright (C) 2002-5  Martin Oberg, Robert Rainwater, Sam Kothari, Lyon Lim

+Copyright (C) 2000-2  Richard Hughes, Roland Rabien & Tristan Van de Vreede

+

+This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or

+modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License

+as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2

+of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

+

+This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,

+but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of

+MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the

+GNU General Public License for more details.

+

+You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License

+along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software

+Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307, USA.

+

+================================================================================

+Useful plugins which can help you to work with the MSN protocol

+================================================================================

+

+Popup 1.0.1.9

+(http://miranda-im.org/download/details.php?action=viewfile&id=299)

+Popup Plus 2.0.3.8

+(http://miranda-im.org/download/details.php?action=viewfile&id=1170)

+----------------------

+All notifications in the MSN plugin are made using the Popup

+plugin. After the Popup plugin installation there will be some

+options available for tuning, you will find them in

+Options/Popups/MSN tab.

+

+Chat 0.2.0.2

+(http://miranda-im.org/download/details.php?action=viewfile&id=1309)

+----------------------

+This plugin allows you to support group chats with many MSN users. Without

+that plugin you can't leave a chat been being invited, so if you plan to

+use groupchats, this plugin is essential.

+

+SRMM (Unicode) 1.0.4.3

+(http://miranda-im.org/download/details.php?action=viewfile&id=1136)

+tabSRMM (Unicode) 0.9.9.95

+(http://hell.at.eu.org/forums)

+----------------------

+They both are true Unicode-aware message editors. Using them you can

+send/receive Unicode messages, so you won't be dependent on the

+codepages, encodings etc. They work only under NT4/Win2k/XP/2003.

+

+Unicode History Viewer

+(http://miranda-im.org/download/details.php?action=viewfile&id=1109)

+----------------------

+If you work under NT4/Win2k/XP/2003, and you can send/receive messages

+in Unicode, the standard history viewer will show question-marks when

+Unicode characters cannot be mapped to the current codepage. In this

+case you can use this plugin to have no problems at all.

+

+================================================================================

+Frequently asked questions.

+================================================================================

+

+Q1. I want to use the OpenSSL libraries, but plugin can't find or load

+them. Where can I find the valid DLLs for Win32?

+

+A1. http://www.slproweb.com/products/Win32OpenSSL.html

+Use the latest stable version.

+

+----------------------------------------------------------------

+

+Q2. I get strange errors with connection, proxies, file sending/

+receiving. How can I find the reason of the problem?

+

+A2. Some useful information is grouped in the networking-msn.txt.

+If it does not help, try to create a network log. Go to

+Options/Network and press a "Log Options" button (the only button

+in the upper-right corner). Very often this log helps users to

+find a hidden diagnostic messages, or simply understand what is

+happening concretely. If a problem persists, you can contact me,

+and upon request, send me (zipped!) a piece of this log.

+

+----------------------------------------------------------------

+

+Q3. My Miranda logged into the MSN network successfully, but I

+cannot send a message, and a contact's menu item 'Message' is blocked.

+

+A3. The problem is in the Conversation Style Messaging plugin.

+CSM plugin is incompatible with the MSN plugin because of the

+error in it. Disable it and/or delete, if you want to use the MSN

+protocol

+

+----------------------------------------------------------------

+

+Q4. I want to compile your sources, but got a lot of errors.

+

+A4. First, you should download new Miranda's SDK sources, and

+place the MSN plugin's sources into Protocol\MSN subdirectory

+(accordingly to the Miranda's directory tree). Notice that MSN is

+not a plugin anymore, it's stored among another protocols. Look at

+http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/miranda-icq to

+view the complete directory structure.

+

+Then download the Popup plugin, and unzip header file m_popup.h

+to the SDK\headers_c directory. Then you should be able to compile

+MSN plugin without problems.

+

+Installation of Microsoft Platform SDK is not required to

+compile MSN plugin sources

+

+----------------------------------------------------------------

+

+Q5. When I receive an authorization request, my own nickname is

+shown in the contact list. Is it a bug?

+

+A5. Yes, it is, but it cannot be solved now. Miranda uses UINs

+to identify a contact, but because MSN protocol have no UINs,

+your own nickname (as a default one) is shown.

+

+----------------------------------------------------------------

+

+WMBR, George Hazan (ghazan@postman.ru).