Copied verbatim from http://cgit.collabora.com/git/user/maiku/papyon.git/commit/?h=bug-42689&id=011201e47004538e732f247bfeb21634c6e1d97f >>The ABFindAll and FindMembership requests were getting HTTP 301 Permanently Moved responses with empty ABFindAllResponse nodes. This was causing an assertion when trying to access a nonexistent part of the ABFindAllResponse packet and therefore impossible to log in. This patch replaces occurrences of the obsolete 'contacts.msn.com' with the preferred address (according to the responses) of 'local-bay.contacts.msn.com'. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Use current versions of papyon files as described in linked bug report. 2.Try and connect using a client such as Empathy. Actual Results: Empathy tries to connect forever. Expected Results: Empathy connects and logs into MSN.
I should have mentioned the fix is provided in the URL I linked in the description.
> 13 Nov 2011; Alexandre Rostovtsev <tetromino@gentoo.org> > +papyon-0.5.6.ebuild: > Bump. Should fix inability to connect (bug #389941, thanks to > gw.kenta@gmail.com for reporting) and a number of other bugs.
Note that to my knowledge one should prefer using telepathy-haze for MSN connectivity in empathy over telepathy-butterfly if possible. Currently that's not always a possibility due to telepathy-haze not providing the Call MUC and some more in case you need voip support and such.