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Old 19th January 2009
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Default Pidgin MSN connection issues, invalid SSL Certificate chain

I recently had an issue with MSN under Pidgin on my 7-Stable system, and another user came up with a similiar issue under Gentoo GNU/Linux. The MSN account refused to login, sighting the following SSL Certificate related error in a popup:

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'The certificate chain presented for contacts.msn.com is not valid.'
Thanks to the kind people in #Pidgin, I managed to find the Debug Window. I must be stupid, of course help -> debug window is a helpful thing, not a 'tool' ^_^. Quick look around the debug window yielded more useful information:

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(21:44:03) gnutls: Attempting to load X.509 certificate from /usr/home/Terry/.purple/certificates/x509/tls_peers/contacts.msn.com
(21:44:03) certificate/x509/tls_cached: Peer cert did NOT match cached
After being pointed towards the GTE CyberTrust Global Root CA, I managed to find it via google here. A quick move of it into /usr/local/purple/ca-certs/ and bingo. My guess is the old certificate in pidgins folder is outdated, hence the miss match.

MSN works again for the time being, posted in case any other sap gets it.
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Old 25th January 2009
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Thanks for the info.

My solution to the same problem is different, though, if anyone is interested.
  1. I removed the msn certificate files
    Code:
    $ cd ${HOME}/.purple/certificates/x509/tls_peers
    $ rm contacts.msn.com login.live.com
    If you're not comfortable with removing the files, simply copy them to another folder like ~/tmp.
  2. Open pigdin debug window: Help -> Debug Window
  3. Open pidgen account manager: Accounts -> Mange Accounts
  4. Disable the MSN account, then enable the MSN account: Enabled checkbox
  5. The debug window showed pidgin connecting to msn, downloading the certificates and saving them to login.live.com and contacts.msn.com.
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Old 16th February 2009
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It seems like problem with retrieving the certificate at first time. Try switching to Http-method from MSN account options and log on once.. This worked for me, and as certificate is once received you should be able to switch back to normal mode.
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Old 19th November 2010
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deleting is not always works ,for some reason.
In some cases it's required to download certificate
sourcefield.blogspot.com/2010/11/certificate-for-omegacontactsmsncom.html
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Old 7th December 2010
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Another workaround I just discovered: Pidgin seems to refresh omega.contacts.msn.com periodically, but it arrives with CRLFs (DOS style). Running dos2unix on it and restarting pidgin fixed the problem for me.
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You really should not have any more problems with the latest versions of libpurple and pidgin.
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