Just found out a couple of days that it is possible to enable personal messages (that "thing" under the nickname) in amsn. It is very experimental and you probably shouldn't bother giving any bugreports or any other complaining when using it. (There must be a reason there is no mentioning of how to enable it on the amsn forums, i had to dig in the dev malinglist). Neither does it look any good yet, but so what when you can finally see those messages in linux.
Here is how you do it: Edit config.tcl and change ::config::setKey protocol "9" to 11.
After that go into your profile directory /home/username/.amsn/profilename/ and edit config.xml and change
<entry>
<attribute>protocol</attribute>
<value>9</value>
</entry>
to
<entry>
<attribute>protocol</attribute>
<value>11</value>
</entry>
Sometimes the value is edited back to 9 by the program itself, so you have to change it in the config.xml file again.
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