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Pidgin and MSN - How to permanently resolve the issue of certificates

In recent days, many users complain about a problem that occurs in connection with
Pidgin

MSN

.
often an annoying error message appears:
• not validate the certificate
• omega.contacts.msn.com The certificate can not be validated. The certificate chain presented was not valid.

and connecting with our friends in Messenger is impossible.

run in several network solutions with more or less up to date certificates to add to Pidgin, like the one that suggests you to download the certificate directly https: / / omega.contacts.msn.com.
Do not do it, are methods that prove temporary, and after some time the problem returns as such. Now Pidgin seems to come from the developers of the final solution:
if you have followed other instructions (wrong) to replace the certificate omega.contacts.msn.com, delete it by going to Tools Pidgin / Certificates, and then select delete it downloaded from the official Pidgin this file and this file

if you use Windows, copy them to

C: \\ Program Files \\ Pidgin \\ ca-certs \\ if you use Ubuntu,

copy them to / usr / share / purple / ca-certs

restart Pidgin and you can say goodbye forever to this annoying error.

21/11/2010
Edit: Pidgin developers, in addition to the workaround reported, the news came that the certificates will be present in the next version of Pidgin (the 2.7.6) the issue of which is (or was until a few days ago) scheduled for next week and I remember also provide support to version 16 of MSNP protocol that allows, among other things, to connect from multiple locations simultaneously (a rigraziamento Elrond in the forums
Ubuntu.it

for the news).