Re: [opensuse] Yahoo! Messenger & Gaim on 10.0?

On Saturday 06 December 2008, Randall R Schulz wrote:
Hi,

Suddenly Yahoo! Messenger up and disconnected me and now, unlike any
time in the past, I'm being told that the YM server "requested the
use of an unrecognized authentication method." And that "This version
of Gaim will likely not be able to successfully sign on to Yahoo."
I've tried repeatedly to log in and the same thing happens every
time.

Has anybody else seen this? Is it permanent? I logged in to YM from
my Mac using the latest (version 3 beta) version of the Yahoo!
Messenger software and it worked, so it's not that I don't have the
right password or that there's some kind of communication problem
between me and the YM servers.


Randall Schulz

I think there were some changes at Yahoo's end earlier this year where
the minimum version of the protocol supported/accepted was changed, or
something like that, so as to "clean up" the user base of old clients
and to get people upgrade their old Windows software to newer versions
that better help Yahoo make money on them. Hence, clients reporting too
old a version of the login and/or IM protocol were (supposedly) from
that point on shut out. Pidgin at that time announced an old version of
the protocol when logging into Yahoo and was therefore sent an error
message telling the client is too old, and all access to the service
was thus denied.

I saw this myself at some time in the summer: Suddenly, Yahoo would no
longer let me log in, no matter what. Upgrading to the latest Pidgin
solved the issue.

Regards,
Tero Pesonen
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