Comment 3 for bug 300988

Thanks for reporting back. Please check the following document:

http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/messenger/messenger7/messenger/messenger-02.html

It seems you can also use port 80 instead of port 5050. Please try using the pidgin yahoo account configuration menu for using one of the ports listed on the web page. If that works for your, report back please.

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