LXer: How to Fix Pidgin and Yahoo Issues

LXer · 06-21-2009, 01:20 PM

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Lots of people (including me) have been experiencing issues trying to connect to their yahoo messenger account via pidgin. The reason for this issues seem to be that Yahoo are updating their servers and are using a new authentication system? Thankfully i found a workaround

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H_TeXMeX_H · 06-21-2009, 01:48 PM

It is fixed in the latest version of pidgin, so download it and install it.

newbiesforever · 06-21-2009, 04:41 PM

Thanks! My Pidgin has been refusing to connect to Yahoo, and I've wondered why. I had to use Kopete.

DragonSlayer48DX · 06-21-2009, 07:42 PM

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Originally Posted by H_TeXMeX_H

It is fixed in the latest version of pidgin, so download it and install it.

Guess I update too frequently- I've never had a problem.