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Have experienced these additional error codes using file transfer from a standard Yahoo user to Trillian Y!
*** Unknown Service: 77.
*** Unknown Service: 133
Still none the wiser.
Realise this thread is a bit old, but it’s the only reference I can find to this line in the log:
*** Unknown Service: 79.
I’m running Trillian Basic 0.74H – and it seems to appear whenever someone on the Yahoo network tries to “send file”. Has anybody else experienced this problem?
Just a quick update on (iii) and (iv)
>> (iii) Adding Yahoo contacts via the ‘Buddy Wizard’ in Trillian does not automatically propgate these users to your Contacts/BuddyList in Y! messenger.
>> (iv) Adding Yahoo contacts via the ‘Buddy Wizard’ in Trillian does not send Y! messenger users a notification message to tell then you added them as a friend?
Ignore both of these. It does actually work, you just have remember to only type the Yahoo when using the Buddy Wizard, i.e. bigblueforum.
If you type bigblueforum@yahoo.com – it doesn’t[/b] give you an error, and adds the user in your contacts, but will (a) not show you the online status of that user, and (b) will only let you IM them if they initiated the chat first (if you try to initiate the chat, it states they are offline and will not forward your offline message).
Hope this helps any other Trillian newbies out there!
Thanks for the advice chaps – ‘unreliable’ seems to be the order of the day, at least with the Basic version of Trillian. Hardly much of an advertisement for those who are considering upgrading!
Incase anyone is trying to replicate these problems and feels it’s a system issue rather than a client problem, I’m running Win 2000 Pro SP4 with IE 6 – but I doubt this is the case.
A note on (iv) – granted, the actual note can be a bit of a nuisance, but the buddy should know they’ve been added to your list and have the offer of reciprocating… don’t you think?
Incidentally I can now add an additional item:
(v) Open email, click on hyperlink in email body (new browser window pops-up with URL), return to email, click any general navigation (delete, next message, move email to folder) and it returns me to the Hotmail log-in page? I guess there is something a bit flaky (surprise surprise) about the Trillian–>Hotmail authentication?
Regardless, I guess these are queries best reloved using Trillian’s own forums at http://www.ceruleanstudios.com/forums/ – which brings me to another point…
I hate to be all “emperor’s new clothes” about it, but can anybody read the thread text in, for example the FAQs (http://www.ceruleanstudios.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=52) – it all looks blank to me! I have registered with them, and I don’t look to be blocking any cookies or anything like that…
detn8r – I hadn’t realised this was possible… just to clarify – are you saying that any email address at all can be registered as a MSN Passport account, and thus have exactly the same MSN Messenger access as a proprietary Microsoft account such a i]me@hotmail.com[/i?
So i]me@bigcompany.com[/i with no access outside the corporate LAN (but internet access for IM), i]me@ISPprovider.com[/i as a free POP3 or IMAP account, and i]me@otherIMprovider.com[/i such as Yahoo could all use MSN messenger? Or am I misunderstanding?
Is this still valid? I’ve been using Trillian Basic v0.74 (w/ Patch H) but am considering upgrading to Pro, if only for the webcam capabilities (http://www.trillian.cc/support/manual.php?hchap=3&hsub=5).
The manual implies it’s only available for Yahoo accounts however – does anybody know if it also works for MSN? And if sound is implicit, or just images?
I have been evaluating Trillian Basic v0.74 (w/ Patch H) and find much the same thing with MSN file transfers.
File transfer is painfully slow, even ADSL/ADSL – seems to average around 2.2kbps, often failing near the end of the file.
Haven’t tested it, but presumably the other IM platforms are just as slow… has anyone any ideas?
Shoddy.
OK, upon further digging it would appear that Trillian Pro does at least have some manner of Webcam capabilities – http://www.trillian.cc/support/manual.php?hchap=3&hsub=5
This implies it’s only available for Yahoo accounts however – does anybody know if it also works for MSN? And if sound is implicit, or just images?
Thanks for the swift reply DJHyperbyte,
Just had a dig around the Trillian site (http://www.trillian.cc) and frankly can see little that lives up to its ‘Limitless Communication’ tagline.
There are as you say some Plugins (see http://www.ceruleanstudios.com/downloads/downloads.php?d_type=Plugins&SortBy=All) but few if any address the features I mentioned.
Granted, some such as POP3/IMAP/mobile support are ‘nice-to-haves’ but most are simply small utilities that frankly you’d expect to be built in to the full release by default.
For instance, if you require Weather Updates, an RSS newsfeed, or a spell-checker then there’s plenty to keep you going… but for $25 where’s the facility for (e.g.) Multi-user conversations, Voice/Webcam chat & Offline messages?
Of course I may be missing something obvious, in which case please feel free to correct me. Sometimes it’s difficult to trawl through the individual IM client websites and distinguish what they can do from what they can’t! Which is where a feature comparison matrix, administered by those who eat’n’drink IM, would really come in handy.
So I guess I’m still stuck with the menage a trois of MSN/Yahoo/AIM – urrghhh, what an unhappy union…
