Due to the nature of phpListGrab, some users may have trouble getting it to work. There are two main reasons that may be causing problems.
The first common one is the script displaying Failed to connect to server. after a delay (ie. the script will stall for a while then load the page with the message). This is usually due to a firewall blocking the connection. The Web server the script is running on must be able to create outgoing connections to port 1863. Most shared Web hosts will have this blocked for security reasons and you probably will not be able to get it unblocked. How you get around this is really up to you, my only recommendation is try another server.
The other issue is authentication failing. phpListGrab uses MSNPAuth to authenticate with Passport. The version which uses cURL is known to not work on certain configurations, if this sounds like the case, try using version 1.2.1 which simply uses fsockopen. This release of phpListGrab uses this, so there shouldn’t be many people running into this one.
If you are getting Failed to connect to server. when trying to use phpListGrab, it may be because I had it set to connect to a specific server IP instead of messenger.hotmail.com. You can fix it simply by opening phpListGrab.class.php and on line 35, replace 207.46.24.67 with messenger.hotmail.com. It should look like this:
function grab($server = 'messenger.hotmail.com')
Both copies in downloads and sandbox have been updated.
MSN Messenger and Windows Messenger are two very different applications, each have a different purpose and target audience. As such, you are able to install both on Windows XP. This has caused much confusion with the API that exists in both of them.
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List Cache Deleter allows you to delete list cache files for accounts used with MSN Messenger. This is sometimes needed due to a bug in MSN Messenger which causes it to lose track of the list cache version and sends a blank string to the server as the current cache version, which makes it unable to sign in.
