I’'ve been experimenting and (even with the newest BETA) the problem is an account @hotmail.com is just fine and works perfectly and downloads the contact list etc… BUT lets say an account @mydomain.com it signs them in but it seems to have a great problem trying to download the contact list to their friends they appear online but to them they can not view anybody but people can talk to them.
Well, considering I have an @nc.rr.com account and not hotmail.com, I can certainly verify that “it’'s working for me”. =) If you have debug logs turned on, send them to me, otherwise I’'m not sure what to tell you.
I think I have a related issue (or even the same). Eventhough I am online, people see me as offline. Yesterday my boyfriend noticed that I was offline in his list.
I can send and receive messages, though.
I have a @mydomain.net msn address. (same for xmpp, msn, aim and icq )
If you need a log, please tell me, so I can turn on the debug log.
Using IM Gateway 1.1.0 Beta 5 and Openfire 3.3.2
Edit: He can’'t send me any messages, until I send him the first.
I now have over 2200 lines of logs, just tried sending some messages from him, to me and back and then to me again.
Well. Not entirely great news. I can’‘t see anything that looks wrong what-so-ever. I see where you said you didn’‘t receive a message. I can certainly see him coming online and such. I don’‘t see anything wrong in the login process. All in all there’‘s nothing here that explains what’'s going on. =/
I did some comparisons with what Pidgin is doing and I’‘ll try to put out a new beta for you all to try soon. There’'s a chance it might have been a simple slight imperfection with the handling of the MSN protocol.
That means someone can initiate a chat with me and I tested this out in my boyfriend’‘s msn-client and I even appear online. Don’'t know why…
Well crap, that’‘s not a good sign. I don’‘t see anything in your MSN roster that indicates that he shouldn’'t be allowed to contact you.
I thought it was a good sign to see it working as it should. The one that started a chat with me, was on my contact list. Sorry, if I wasn’'t that clear.
Well, I mean, I guess it’‘s a good sign for you. =) But from my perspective it’‘s a bad sign because it makes the "why isn’'t it working between you and your boyfriend" even more mysterious.