Pidgin Issues With Yahoo Messenger Service
Source … Celtic Wolf – Pidgin and Yahoo
I had been wondering why Pidgin was having problems connecting to Yahoo’s Messenger service for the last two days or so. I eventually had to go to Pidgin’s IRC chat room to find a link to some relevant information.
Essentially Yahoo is upgrading the software on their servers which includes a new authentication method that Pidgin, and other non-Messenger clients, aren’t compatible with, yet.
The only workaround that seems functional is simply pointing the client to a pager server that hasn’t been upgraded yet. You can do that by clicking on Accounts > Manage Accounts > highlight Yahoo account > Modify > Advanced tab. You’ll see a entry for the pager server.
It should be set to scs.msg.yahoo.com which actually points to a number of different server addresses. I changed mine to cs101.msg.mud.yahoo.com which is currently working with Pidgin. Save the change and Pidgin should/might connect to Yahoo.
More information with additional server addresses can be found at Celtic Wolf.
UPDATE: Pidgin 2.5.7 was just released to fix a few issues including Yahoo’s Messenger service.
June 21st, 2009 at 2:39 am
most excellent. I’ve been trying to figure this out for 3 days.
Thanks!