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Repair broken .Mac iChat / AIM access
Authored by: danieleran on Aug 20, '04 07:25:34PM

I had a similar problem with .Mac when I created a new password; my new password was too long.

I was able to use everything else (iDisk, webmail, email) but couldn't sign into AIM using iChat. It gave me no errors, just told me my account information was wrong. I tried changing my password a couple times using AIM (which directs you to Apple's site) and waited thinking that some time would be required to propagate the new password through AIM's servers or something.

It got me thinking when the .Mac system preferences panel wouldn't store the password, even though it worked in Mail and other places.

Only after I tried a shorter password did everything immediately start working again. It was frustrating that nowhere in the account password creation or login is there any suggestion that long passwords don't work in iChat/AIM.



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