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A blog which tries to demystify computer security, point out the half-truths and misinformation which floats around about this subject and hopefully reduce the hype created by semi-informed people. It also has some useful tips from time to time.

Monday, June 22, 2009

Pidgin/Yahoo issues

It seems that Yahoo has dropped support for legacy way of login, causing some problems with Pidgin. Possible solutions:

Update to version 2.5.7 (works for me :-))
Accounts -> Edit account (to yahoo account) -> Advanced -> and to Pager Server erase “scs.msg.yahoo.com” and put instead 66.163.181.189

Further info:

The bug on Launchpad – also gives a more detailed list of alternative IPs
The blogpost announcing Pidgin 2.5.7
Update: even more information abut the issue.

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