If you’re like me, being able to have everything connected to a single email address makes life easier. Unfortunately, most Instant Messengers require you to set up email addresses with their service to use with their Instant Messenger program. Luckily, you don’t have to worry about this with MSN Messenger. You can go to passport.net to use any email address (for example, a gmail one) to sign into MSN Messenger with! This will also let you use your email address for all things live. Like Mail, Calendar, Skydrive, etc.
The process is dead simple. Go to passport.net, scroll down to Use an e-mail address you already have and click Get started now under it. After that it’s just a matter of filling in the necessary information. When you sign in to MSN Messenger, use your ‘regular’ email address and the password you created to associate with it. It’s really simple and something I wish I could do with other instant messengers.
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Hi, does this only work with free email addresses? I tried to sign up with my ISP email but I got an error message saying:
‘The portion of your e-mail address that follows the @ symbol is part of a “reserved domain” such as live.com, hotmail.com, msn.com or passport.com. Please type a different e-mail address.’
Any way to get around this?
thanks
This e-mail address is part of a reserved domain such as live.com, hotmail.com, or msn.com. Please enter a different e-mail address. << what does this mean ??
I got the same thing Sophie. What kind of address were you trying to register? I have a suspicion that the only non-Microsoft emails it allows are free domain emails i.e. gmail, yahoo, etc. I tried entering the email address I got from my provider and I got that same error message.
sa:)
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