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Summary: The email address use for your instant messenger account doesn't have to be the email address that belongs to the same service. Can I use Yahoo or MSN messenger without Yahoo or MSN mail? Yahoo, MSN, and AOL all supply both email and instant messaging programs. Yahoo's email is free, MSN provides both free email with Hotmail and paid services with MSN itself, and AOL requires a subscription for email. But they all have different and incompatible instant messaging programs. Can you mix and match? Sure! • Yahoo requires that you create a Yahoo account to use their instant messaging service and with that account comes an email address. But there's nothing that says you have to use it. You can happily ignore your Yahoo email and use Yahoo instant messenger all you want. I do. MSN requires that you create a Passport account to use MSN Instant Messenger, and a passport account requires an email address. The most common addresses used for happen to be Hotmail accounts. Year ago that was the only option but passports can now be created for any email address. So you can get a free Hotmail account like I did, or not. You can use an MSN email account or something else. It doesn't matter. AOL Instant Messenger does not require an AOL account. If you have an AOL account, you're set. But if you don't then you can create an AOL sign-in name at any time. And keep using whatever email you use, AOL or not. I do. And yes, I have instant messaging accounts on all three services and often run all three instant messaging clients at the same time. Again, no problem. And my email? Not related to any of them. It's completely separate. Releated:
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Posted by: Leo Notenboom at February 15, 2007 9:39 AMhi
I had a yahoo id that i was using with msn messenger i deleted my yahoo account but the id is still active for msn. Do you know how i can close that id.
Posted by: Deepa at May 12, 2007 8:00 AM"Yahoo requires that you create a Yahoo account to use their instant messaging service and with that account comes an email address. But there's nothing that says you have to use it. You can happily ignore your Yahoo email and use Yahoo instant messenger all you want. I do."
THE QUESTION REMAINS - HOW!!!!!
Posted by: Nadim Razzouk at May 14, 2007 4:01 AMcan you shed a light on this issue?
the thing is i am a mac user - i use MSN messenger with my .biz account because i registered with .net passport - but i found out that yahoo messenger is much cooler - can i do something similar and use my .biz a/c with yahoo messenger?
Hi,i have both MSN and Yahoo messangers. I would like to ask,can i use Yahoo messanger but sign in to my MSN list by using my hotmail address?
Posted by: Kean at September 21, 2007 2:24 AMcan i use my gmal account on windows live messenger?
Posted by: DEvi at October 7, 2007 8:35 AMi dont have a messenger both yahoo and msn and i heard that we can chat through www.emessenger.net or my question is how can i chat from a web page
Posted by: aman at October 12, 2007 6:01 AMeverytime i try to log in my yahoo email, it tells me page cannot be displayed.
Posted by: norma arellano at January 14, 2008 10:33 AMHi, I use MSN messenger and my cousinin Australia uses Yahoo! messenger. We can text chat but cannot seem to video link. Further more her icon does not turn green when we are online! If as your statement says, we can mix and match, then how can we chat using video link? We both have webcams set up.
Posted by: chris lloyd at February 4, 2008 6:35 AMHI,
I have yahoo ID and want to use in MSN messanger, but when ever i try it does not allow. Its says, Windows Live ID you put is incorrect.
So how do i fiz this problem?
Posted by: Dragon at February 25, 2008 8:15 PMTHnx
Hi,
Posted by: Francois at September 26, 2008 12:23 PMYou can use all of the messenger protocole all in once with pidgin, an open source programme that support msn, yahoo messenger, google talk, icq, jaber, facebook chat, etc