Adium 1.3.1b1 MSN display name problem

**Sori** · 06-01-2010

I had been running Windows Xp on my system. Just few days back i had installed Adium 1.3.1b1and had use it on my machine. It just work fine. Now the problem is that my problem is that Adium changes my MSN display name some times, replacing it with the display name from somebody in my contact list, randomly. How do i resolve Adium 1.3.1b1 MSN display name problem? Any one knows about it? Kindly help me out to resolve the above issue. Thanks.

**Eric B** · 06-01-2010

There seems to be some problem with the server stored aliases in msn-pecan since it's has disabled it. It seems Microsoft changed their server-side implementation of the protocol. Previously, your display name was stored on the server and persisted there; now, they decided not to store it and let the client set it on each login.

**Glenny** · 06-01-2010

Adium probably is storing your display name locally and not setting it on the server each time you login. Change your display name and it should. The solution was simple in account info, under Personal, my Display name had to be set to something more then empty. That includes setting your initial display name when you install it.

**JonathanD** · 06-01-2010

It would be a good work around to create an addressbook entry for every MSN contact. So that adium can make use of that information.Messages from blocked contacts are now never displayed, even if the protocol allows them to send the message. If you go to hotmail and change your name to whatever you like it to be in adium then it will show that on adium.

**Macarenas** · 06-01-2010

If Adium can't get sufficient display-name information from the IM server, it should fall back on your computer's short name or maybe just your IM user ID/e-mail address. You can set your own MSN display name in Adium like this: Preferences -> Accounts -> select account -> Edit -> Personal. Then edit the “Display name” field. Changes take effect immediately when you close the window.

**kattman** · 06-01-2010

I think it might be some version issue that might causing your the above issue. For that you need to uninstall your Adium program and then try to install the latest version of Adium on your machine. Check out whether you still face the same issue or not on your machine. According to me that should resolve your above issue.