Messenger and Linux
 

Hi, I have a hotmail account, but now I want to cancel it and I want to join www.Linuxmail.com or www.bsdmail.com, but is there a way to have some kind of messenger with those Mails? or what Linux email have a messenger?

Thanks a lot.

you can still use MSN Messenger with another email address, you just have to register it as a .net passport or whatever its called.
for msn clients on linux i recommend gaim and dMSN.
hope it helps!

Re: Messenger and Linux
 

I don't use hotmail alot ... could you please explain what you mean by does X email account have a messenger?

does MSN messenger tell you if you have email?

I mean that if there some kind of MSN messenger in Linux mails?

Thanks for replys

Not that I know of , but I always considered it a rather annoying thing , having your messenger start up when you start up your mail-client.

I just go with GAIM ; works pretty good for my four different accounts+IRC.

to be able to use the msn messenger network, you need to have an account on it (hotmail, for example)...

even if you get an email address somewhere else, you'll need to use the hotmail account to log into the msn network... there's lot's of folks that have a hotmail account just for the messenger, they don't use the email (maybe for junk mail)...

there's lot's of choices when it comes to selecting an msn messenger client for linux... some, like "amsn", only work with msn, but some, like "gaim" and "kopete", work on many more networks (msn, yahoo, icq, aol, irc, etc.)...

http://amsn.sourceforge.net/

http://gaim.sourceforge.net/

http://kopete.kde.org/

Ok, now I have installed GAIM, now which protocol I need to use with my Linuxmail.org account ?

And how can I add Hotmail contacts to my Linuxmail.org?

Thanks