Obtuse Empathy configuration for Google Apps

[Steven McCoy]

Binary package hint: empathy

Google Apps users cannot simply use the Google Talk account type in Empathy and enter their emaill address & password. I'm not sure why the configuration is not the same but the following settings need to be applied:

* Encryption required (TLS/SSL)
* Server: talk.google.com
* Port: 5223
* Use old SSL: true

credit:

http://collaboration.dnoble.org/2007/05/configuring-pidgin-for-google-apps.html

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report. The issue is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug the to the people writting the software (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME)

[Steven McCoy (dsbunny)]

Oops, that was supposed to be linked with empathy/Gnome upstream, instead it got linked to Debian and a Gnome bug.

[Evan Carroll (evancarroll)]

I can confirm this is still present in Karmic, in addition it failed to import from pidgin properly

[Evan Carroll (evancarroll)]

Oh, it works insecure on port 5222, no encryption, no ssl too.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for sending the bug to GNOME

[Sense Egbert Hofstede (sense)]

This is a duplicate of bug #477233. Google App GTalk accounts should work on the default GTalk servers just as well as the regular GTalk accounts. The workaround for bug #477233 also fixes this bug and vice-versa.

Even if there should be something changed to the default GTalk settings to make Google App GTalk accounts that should be discussed in bug #477233 since both type of accounts do work with the same connection settings.