Bug 225349

Summary:	Kopete can't connect to MSN
Product:	[Unmaintained] kopete	Reporter:	Kelytha <kelytharun>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Kopete Developers <kopete-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Severity:	normal
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
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Description Kelytha 2010-02-03 08:55:21 UTC

Version:           1.0.0 (using 4.3.95 (KDE 4.3.95 (KDE 4.4 RC2)), Kubuntu packages)
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.31-17-generic

Hi, I am trying to use Kopete from KDE SC 4.4RC2 on Kubuntu 9.10

The problem I face is, that I can't get it to connect to MSN, I always get the prompt that the password I entered was wrong. The same message about the password being wrong is also shown in the terminal if I launch Kopete that way.

However, Pidgin and Meebo can connect with the same password! I even tried to copy and paste the password from Pidgin's accounts.xml file into Kopete (after making a successful connection with Pidgin) to make sure that it's not me mistyping it for the 100th time. But Kopete still claims I'm giving it a wrong password.

Comment 1 Kelytha 2010-02-03 09:39:11 UTC

The problem also affects Kmess.

Comment 2 Roman Jarosz 2010-02-03 09:41:38 UTC

Do you have in the password any non ascii characters?

Comment 3 Kelytha 2010-02-03 09:42:34 UTC

No, only normal english letters.

Comment 4 Roman Jarosz 2010-02-03 09:45:40 UTC

Please check that you have set birth year and country for your account (using
http://login.live.com/)

Comment 5 Kelytha 2010-02-03 09:50:14 UTC

Yes, both are set.

Comment 6 Kelytha 2010-02-03 10:42:50 UTC

Okay, I catched the problem!

My password is 18 characters long. If I use a shorter password, everything works fine, both in Kopete and KMess.

Is there a chance that in the future longer passwords will get supported?

Comment 7 Kelytha 2010-02-05 08:35:45 UTC

I have met the same problem regarding long passwords in other KDE applications too. I'm closing this bug now and going to open a wishlist item for support of long passwords.