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

[Mike Watters]

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Gerard Henry wrote:
> 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
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I have talked to Chad about this already, and I will push out the new version
of pidgin once GTK has been released.  should be in the next few days.

I am currently testing version 2.5.7 against the version of gtk in testing.



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Thanks,
Mike

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