Re: problem with pidgin and Yahoo Messenger

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On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 02:39:15PM -0400, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Craig White" <craigwhite@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > all of a sudden, I cannot connect to Yahoo Messenger account with Pidgin
> 
> They're most likely disabling support up to YMSG15 and letting only YMSG16 through. Now there needs to be a mad rush to update to YMSG16 I guess.

Yeh, there was a change to yahoo's authentication protocol. I'm not sure
of details, I found various posts about this, there are some pre-built
binaries for pidgin 2.5.7 that fix it, see links here:

	http://wtogami.livejournal.com/30882.html

I found the link above via Rahul's post here: 

	http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=224512

Some servers are still using the old authentication protocol, I changed to
use cs101.msg.mud.yahoo.com for now, and that worked.

-- Patrick Mansfield

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