I saw that loads of the relevant telepathy stuff on fremantle is maintained by Jonny Lamb and Jon Zhang.

Anyone know them? Are they still active?

EDIT: I had a go of this and got surprisingly far. I fetched the fremantle package from http://repository.maemo.org/extras/p....1.2_armel.deb and tried to install it with 'dkpg -i'. It failed with a dependency error, but all of the files had been copied over anyway. The dependencies look like they are for the account setup UI, so I thought I'd try to set up an account with mc-tool

mc-tool add pecan/msn-pecan MSN string:account=user@hotmail.com stringassword=password
mc-tool enable pecan/msn_pecan/user_40hotmail_2ecom0

The account came up in the Availability app after that, as bare as the jabber ones are. It tried to connect, but after a minute or so gives up and says "Account in use" underneath. Syslog says:

Nov 7 21:54:51 (2011) telepathy-pecan[6194]: GLIB DEBUG tp-glib - started version 0.3.2 (telepathy-glib version 0.14.5)
Nov 7 21:56:03 (2011) telepathy-pecan[6194]: GLIB DEBUG tp-glib - no connections, and timed out
Nov 7 21:56:03 (2011) telepathy-pecan[6194]: GLIB MESSAGE tp-glib - Exiting

Not bad though eh? It doesn't sound like it needs much fixing to get good enough for mc-tool. Fancy SSO forms can come later.