Ubuntu
pidgin package

yahoo connection refused

Bug #391547 reported by Chandria on 2009-06-24

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #389322: Yahoo server authentication changed: Pidgin =<2.5.6 will not connect to Yahoo! servers.. Edit Remove

This bug affects 2 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to
	pidgin (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Undecided	Unassigned
Nominated for Hardy by Daniel Gimpelevich
Nominated for Intrepid by Daniel Gimpelevich
Nominated for Jaunty by Daniel Gimpelevich

Bug Description

all yahoo ids refused connection i changed Accounts-> Edit account (to yahoo account) -> Advanced -> and to Pager Server erase,, scs.msg.yahoo.com"" and put instead 66.163.181.189 and it worked for a few days i don't have a clue how to upgrade i tried to download from pidgin site and it won't allow me and i don't have much computer knowledge so upgrding the one i have i don't know how

Revision history for this message

R. Denison (gaijinak) wrote on 2009-06-28:

Yahoo issues have been addressed in version 2.5.7 (1):

"In response to the Yahoo server changes, I (quickly) yanked the most important changes for this new authentication scheme and slapped them onto Pidgin 2.5.6. After some testing and some other important bug fixes, we kicked Pidgin 2.5.7 out the door. In theory, upgrading to Pidgin 2.5.7 should make most people's Yahoo problems go away."

1) http://planet.pidgin.im/

affects:	ubuntu → pidgin (Ubuntu)
Changed in pidgin (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

Revision history for this message

Daniel Gimpelevich (daniel-gimpelevich) wrote on 2009-06-28:

For the past few weeks, Pidgin in Jaunty has required changing the pager server repeatedly to connect to YIM, every time the one in use got upgraded. There are no longer any pager servers compatible with 2.5.5, so Pidgin in Jaunty is now useless for YIM (and for me, also MSN, since I have no MSN account, and put MSN contacts in YIM).