[csw-users] pidgin: trouble with yahoo account?

[Gerard Henry]

Sebastian Kayser wrote:
> Mike Watters wrote:
>> Gerard Henry wrote:
>>> hello all,
>>> i'm using CSWpidgin (2.5.5), and since 2 weeks, i am unable to
>>> connect with my yahoo account. I verified that my account is correct,
>>> going to the web http://fr.web.im, and it's working, so the problem
>>> is with pidgin. All other protocols are still ok (irc, hotmail,
>>> googletalk,...).  The problem is that pidgin just dislays "Available
>>> - connecting..." but it never connects anybody else has the problem?
>> This is a problem with pidgin.  it is however fixed with 2.5.7
>> release.
>>
>> I have filed a bug to upgrade with the maintainer.
> 
> For reference, the bug entry can be found in our bugtracker [1]. In the
> meantime you might want to try the workaround that is mentioned halfway
> down in the related pidgin bugtracker entry [2]: Manually select
> 66.163.181.167 (cs102.msg.mud.yahoo.com) as your server. I am not sure
> whether it still works, but it's worth a try.
> 
> Sebastian
> 
> [1] http://opencsw.org/mantis/view.php?id=3721
> [2] http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/8853
> 

unfortunately, it doesn't work anymore.


gerard