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

[Sebastian Kayser]

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