Error setting up messages on MacBook

When setting up messages on my Macbook it says 'an error occurred during activation'. How do I solve this?

MacBook Air 13", macOS 10.13

Posted on Jun 17, 2019 7:44 AM

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Tesserax

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Jun 17, 2019 3:25 PM in response to calmawby

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