Re: Pidgin does not connect

Tony Baldwin wrote:
HermanAA wrote:

On Thu, 2009-06-18 at 19:41 -0400, Steve Reilly wrote:

HermanAA wrote:

Pidgin (chat program) has been working for many months.
Now it tries to connect (but never gets connected)

what are you trying to connect to?

are you connected to the net?



steve

This is a chat program. On launching it says 'connecting ...'
As it is Yahoo protocol, afaik it connects to Yahoo.
(My email and surfing is working normal in other screens).

Herman in Philippines.



If you are just trying to connect to Yahoo! Messenger, the problem might
be at their end.
There was discussion of the same matter on the ubuntu-es irc chan just a
while ago.
I and others, using Y!Mess with pidgin, noted the connection kept
dumping today. (while my MSN and Google Talk accounts did not
dump...just Yahoo!).
In fact, I've noted the same behavior while using bitlbee (another means
of connecting to chat protocols, only using an irc cli interface).
Yahoo kept dumping while my other accts (MSN, Google talk) did
not...That's been happening off and on for a few days, IIRC.

/tony


The problem is probably with yahoo. I used to belong to a few yahoo
groups, and everything was great. Rogers took over and started making a
lot of changes.

I was getting about 3,000 emails a day so I wanted to stop the emails
from some of the groups.

When I went to make changes I was asked for my password. I typed it in
and it gave me another box that aske me for my pass word. I thought my
pass word was typed in wrong so I typed it in a text editor and cut and
pasted it into the box online. It asked me for my pass word about 10
times. Then I got through to the area I wanted to go. Set the group
settings for reading the messages online only.

When I pressed the save button, it asked for my password again before it
could save the new settings. So I copied my password from the text
editor on my system and pasted it into the field for password on the site.

After doing it at least 20 times I ended up at my home page instead of
the home page for the group I was just setting.

To make a long story short it took me about 4 days. At about 3 hours a
day to stop 6 yahoo groups from sending me mail.

Stephen O



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