Q: Messages on MBPr shows "iMessage inactive" - help?
I've read through the threads, removed plist, etc etc.
Messages is happy with Bonjour and Google. I can log into iCloud and my appleID account just fine.
This MBPr (Mavericks 10.9.2) had a nuke-and-reinstall 10 days ago. The first time I tried to use Messages since that auspicious event was Monday.
But nothing will get Message to work on my MBPr. (Happy as a clam on my phone and iPad.)
This is the Preferences > Accounts window:
Eventually, I let the spinning wheel spin long enough that I was greeted with an error message:
I'm connected. FiOS.
A few clicks of the "OK" button and I had a pswd field that would let me type.
This felt like I was moving up in the world - but being able to type in the pswd didn't fix anything.
So I tried changing from @mac.com to @me.com. That yielded a new error message:
It took several clicks of the "ok" button for the popup to go away, so I could try the gmail address associated with my account. No joy.
So I went back to my mac.com address (the primary one on the account) and I went back to error message #1.
OK, Ralph, work your magic. ;-)
Kathy
Posted on Jun 17, 2014 2:51 AM











