Comment 6 for bug 675903

I'm using Ubuntu 10.10 64bit. When I start Pidgin (which is still 2.7.3 from Ubuntu) it shows "XXXXXX deaktiviert" and "Unbekannter Grund" (while XXXXXX is my ICQ UIN, "Deaktiviert" means "disabled" and "Unbekannter Grund" means "unknown reason"). When I login with my ICQ UIN on the icq.com web page, it works and it shows my contacts. So my account isn't disabled on the ICQ side. There must be something wrong with pidgin or ICQ. Did AOL/ICQ change once again their protocols? Maybe the problem could be solved with Pidgin 2.7.5, but I didn't get any updates. Here it's still 2.7.3. I'm reluctant to switch to manually installed program versions, because this would mean to manually check for updates for one more application.

When I look at the ICQ account settings, SSL is *not* checked. The server name is login.messaging.aol.com, port 5190. I have installed and often use the OTR plugin, but IMHO this shouldn't interfere with logging into ICQ.