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Originally posted by moudy
I read several sources on the internet, each giving a number on its own >.<
Because it also depends on what list you mean... There are several lists in Messenger (contact list, reverse list, allow list, block list, etc) and each has their own limits. I have no recent official sources for the limits though.
(but note that even those official sources are sometimes contradicting! Not everybody from MS, heck even from the Messenger department itself, know the exact limits, they usually take a educated guess or only know the old limit, not nessecairly the exact current limits)
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Regarding the login attempts, it depends on what you exactly mean and where you attempt to sign in. As there are some differences.
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If you mean how many times you can attempt to login with the _correct_ password and login, that's unlimited. If the login fails for some reason (eg: connection problem), you can simply try again as many times as you want, no matter where you attempt to sign in from.
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If you mean how many attempts you get to guess the password: currently you get 10 attempts when you sign in via the net.
After that your get the warning:
"You've tried to sign in too many times with an incorrect e-mail address or password, or someone else is trying to sign in to the account" or the likes.
You can then sign in again, but you must also correctly answer a captcha in order to check if you're a human and not some automated machine trying to login.
When you fail again after an arbitrary number of times you are brought back to the previous website where you came from. Of course you can always go back again to the login page to start the process over again (but with the captcha check).
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If you mean how many attempts you get to guess the password via Messenger: as far as I know, unlimited (which is kind of a security issue if you ask me - I really think there should be a captcha check here too - but that would probably give problems with 3rd party clients).
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So, the lock down which once was in place when you failed too many times has been removed (since a long time now) because that was sometimes abused as it was dead easy using this method to lock other people out of their accounts by simply typing wrong passwords... Instead, the captcha check is in place now.
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PS: why do you need that information anyways? sounds a bit dodgy
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Coz I read in many places that there is a 5 allowed attempts, and half an hour between every five attemts, but I wanted to make sure of this info, that why asked...
