I am using pidgin as chat client for both yahoo and gtalk. Recently, yahoo has stopped support for older versions of their own yahoo messenger clients. ( anything less than version 7.5 fails ) . It also means that most of the third party clients such as pidgin has problems in login.
On my ubuntu 9.04, the default pidgin version is 2.5.5. You can work around the yahoo login problem as shown below.
Open Accounts-> Manage accounts.
Click on the account you want to fix
Click on modify.
Click on advanced tab.
The pager server is set to scs.msg.yahoo.com
Change it to cs101.msg.mud.yahoo.com
Click on Save
Restart pidgin
It seems yahoo is rolling out a new authentication protocol. Let us wait for a new pidgin update
Update:
Pidgin 2.5.7 which fixes the yahoo login problem is out. You can install it as given below.
Import the public key for Launchpad PPA for Pidgin Developers
$ sudo apt-key adv –recv-keys –keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com \ 67265eb522bdd6b1c69e66ed7fb8bee0a1f196a8
Add the following lines to /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/pidgin-developers/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
Run apt-get update and apt-get install pidgin.
The PPA contains new pidgin releases for other versions of ubuntu ( dapper gutsy, hardy ,intrepid and karmic) You can just replace jaunty in sources.list line indicating this ppa with you distro and enjoy yahoo messenger on pidgin.
Who the fuck needs Yahoo anyway?
Really appreciate your article, no wonder today i cannot login to Yahoo using my pidgin.
Hi, I followed your instructions. It worked till yesterday. Now I get a connection refused if I change the pager server to your suggestion. That is cs101.msg.mud.yahoo.com.
Thanks
I tried the steps above but it didn’t changed any thing so I tried to use scsd.msg.yahoo.com and it worked just fine.
@Khan Md Ashraf
Try installing the 2.5.7 version and then reset the pager server to scs.msg.yahoo.com ;).
Hope it helps.
Your example for apt-key is incorrect:
~# apt-key adv –recv-keys –keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com 67265eb522bdd6b1c69e66ed7fb8bee0a1f196a8
Executing: gpg –ignore-time-conflict –no-options –no-default-keyring –secret-keyring /etc/apt/secring.gpg –trustdb-name /etc/apt/trustdb.gpg –keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg –recv-keys –keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com 67265eb522bdd6b1c69e66ed7fb8bee0a1f196a8
usage: gpg [options] [filename]
The correct syntax is:
apt-key adv –keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com –recv-keys 67265eb522bdd6b1c69e66ed7fb8bee0a1f196a8
Hi there.
I want to inform you that solution provided by @Salim Yasin really works (using scsd.msg.yahoo.com).
Thank you!