This tutorial is for all those Gmail Account Holders that whish to use a Gmail account with MSN Messenger & .Net Passport Service
What you will need:
=> A Gmail Account
=> MSN messenger / Window Messenger – use verify your gmail account.
Once you have downloaded / obtain all of those you are ready to continue.
1. Log in to your gmail account via – http://www.gmail.com
2. Load up MSN messenger and cancel any automatic sign in attempt so that you have it ready to sign in with your gmail account later on.
3. You will need to visit the Microsoft .Net Passport website- http://www.passport.net
4. Now you will need to click the register for your free .net passport today button that is in the right hand corner of the page.
5. That will take you to a registration page. Fill in the form as you would if you where filling a hotmail account accept when asked for your email account you would enter myaccount@gmail.com
6. Once the registration of your .net registered gmail account has been made, sign in to MSN messenger using this newly registered account, you will notice that when you sign in to messenger your messenger name will be youraccount@gmail.com (un—verified) and you won’t be able to change it, this is solved below.
7. As soon as you have signed in , a messenger will appear in an information box( the same as when a contact sign in), click on this and you will be taken through the process of Verifying your account the reason you have to go through this is because at current gmail is not affiliated with .net passport e.g. .net passport doesn’t recognise the @gmail.com as a valid email provider therefore they cannot automatically verify your account (hotmail and msn auto verify as there .net passport affiliated websites),
8. Once you have been taken through the verification process you will be asked to log in to your email account and visit the url given in an email form the .net passport verification service, maximize the internet browser window that you signed in to gmail on earlier, you will have 2 emails form .net passport the first will be welcoming you to .net passport, the second will be the one we are after, the verification email, open this up the url to finish verifying your email address(usually its either the first to this url in the email)
9. Once you have completed these actions and you have been told that your gmail account is verified, sign out of MSN messenger, then re sign back in (you don’t need to wait for any period of time just sign out then straight back in again), you will now notice the(not verified) had been removed from your MSN name, and now you are bale to change their name to, if this is so, then congratulations you now have a fully functioning .net passport gmail account( you cannot access your gmail email account via MSN messenger you will still have to visit the gmail login page for this) http://www.gmail.com
10. If for any reason this didn’t work, and you again receive the message asking you to verify, or you haven’t received your verification email from .net Passport, then re-try 2-7 times until you get it working correctly.
I hope this helps some of you gmail account users out there that have been wracking your brains over how to get gmail in to MSn messenger..
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