pidgin and yahoo
 

This is a very old problem indeed---the compatibility of yahoo with pidgin is disrupted once again...
can anyone give me a solution??
i have tried changing the proxy server to 66.163.181.180 but to no effect....connection is always refused...scs.msg.yahoo.com too doesn't seem to work for many days...

Upgrade to the latest version of Pidgin, it's fixed there.

go here.. & follow the instructions...

http://www.pidgin.im/download/ubuntu/

go to the update manager & check for updates. it'll now give you all the latest fixes from their site.

i have followed the instructions...but the only update i get for pidgin is pidgin-libnotify....
is that the only thing to download?
how will i get pidgin 2.5.7?

hmmm... I did it & when I checked for updates pidgin 2.5.7 was there....

start up pidgin & go to help>about


..what version number is it? it should of updated.


weird.

Do you need to use a proxy server? Try it with no proxy server.

I have installed pidgin 2.5.7...it seems to work fine....but its not giving me new mail alerts....what should I do??