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
Work around
Open Pidgin and go to Account menu
select manage account, choose your yahoo account and click on modify
go to the advance tab. and in the page server field replace whatever is there with the following
cs101.msg.mud.yahoo.com
save and close.
Try connecting to yahoo again from pidgin. It sure worked for me. I hope it works for you
The last release[1] of pidgin should solve this issue. Just have to wait the rollout in the various distributions …
1. http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/ChangeLog
Comment by ongola boy — June 21, 2009 @ 9:17 am |
am sure it would .. but before then this will serve as a quick fix to the issue .. i hope
Comment by Bigbrovar — June 21, 2009 @ 11:54 am |
Yep, it works. Thanks.
Comment by AndyCooll — June 21, 2009 @ 8:27 pm |
You’re welcome glad it worked for u
Comment by bigbrovar — June 21, 2009 @ 8:36 pm |
This solution doesn’t work, and Yahoo won’t work in Kopete either.
Comment by Zauber Paracelsus — June 21, 2009 @ 8:59 pm |
It indeed does work. You need to close and restart Pidgin after you make the change.
Comment by HoTMetaL — June 21, 2009 @ 9:26 pm |
worked, thanks
The workaround also worked in GyachE
Comment by khalidyousif — June 21, 2009 @ 10:28 pm |
works in Kopete (kubuntu karmic beta 2,KDE 4.3 beta 2)… thanks…
Comment by desaparecido — June 21, 2009 @ 11:44 pm |
oops.. it’s a detail but is kubuntu karmic alpha 2
Comment by desaparecido — June 21, 2009 @ 11:47 pm |
worked
cheers
Comment by John — June 22, 2009 @ 2:12 am |
It’s work in Ubuntu’s Pidgin.
Comment by Yee — June 22, 2009 @ 2:53 am |
Great tip! Thanks! But, how come even older versions of YM work?
Comment by LVS — June 22, 2009 @ 5:50 am |
It sure works!
thanks man, without people like you it’s hard to browse the web
Comment by Kunal — June 22, 2009 @ 5:50 am |
Thanks mate.. It worked…
Comment by zenwalker — June 22, 2009 @ 3:35 pm |
Or you could just install Pidgin 2.5.7 where it’s been fixed
Comment by Vlad Nistor — June 23, 2009 @ 11:15 pm |
it says “could not estabilish a connection with a server : connection refused”
i just copied the server above.
but why it could not connect?
Comment by nitaluvrain — June 25, 2009 @ 3:53 am |
Try
cn.scs.msg.yahoo.com
That is working today
Comment by Cloud — June 25, 2009 @ 7:09 am |
I am using Pidgin 2.5.5 on Ubuntu 9.04.
This one is not working:
cs101.msg.mud.yahoo.com
but it’s working fine with this one:
cn.scs.msg.yahoo.com
Thanks for sharing this information!
Comment by Alex — June 25, 2009 @ 10:03 am |
If you are behind a firewall e.g. office setup, the below worked for me.
Under Advanced Settings:
Pager Server: 202.43.216.31
Pager Port:80
File Transfer Port:80
Comment by jua — June 25, 2009 @ 6:31 pm |
If you can upgrade to the new pidgin 2.5.7 it should work fine. Should be something to do with how Yahoo changed Authentication. They have a repository on the Pidgin site that works well.
Comment by Chris — June 25, 2009 @ 7:47 pm |
I tried this and it still didn’t work what else can i try?
Thank you for your help..
Comment by NomadRhodes — June 26, 2009 @ 4:02 am |
I tried it, and it worked for a few days, many thanks!!
Then it stopped working, alas. Probably Yahoo changed again.
Could you do again what you did to discover that fix, or better yet, say how you found it? Thanks again!
Comment by bumpy — June 26, 2009 @ 10:29 pm |
looks like if you do fedora, you are s.o.l. until latest pidgin update. i note from lots of google that this scenario pops every couple years.
Comment by dwpbike — June 27, 2009 @ 3:32 am |
cn.scs.msg.yahoo.com is working on my Ubuntu 9.04.
Thanks for this massive help. How do you “know” what url to use?
Comment by Barrie Callender — June 29, 2009 @ 2:26 pm |
cn.scs.msg.yahoo.com Is the way to go. Thanks for the help all!
Comment by Drib Trebor — July 1, 2009 @ 6:07 pm |
Nope… Did not work for me and this issue is rather upsetting.
Comment by mickey12gauge — July 4, 2009 @ 4:12 pm |
Pidgin 2.5.8 is now out with many fixes for the 2.5.7 issues. Available in my PPA and pidgin-developers.
NB: new paging server is scsa.msg.yahoo.com
Comment by Vlad Nistor — July 5, 2009 @ 6:47 pm |
GET THIS GUY SOME DRINKS!
Thank you!
Harrison.Vel aKa Buck Lucky
Comment by Buck Lucky — September 7, 2009 @ 3:35 am |
awww that is so nice of you Buck. I will have a bottle of sprite please
Comment by Bigbrovar — September 7, 2009 @ 5:44 am |
That worked for me
thx alot
Under Advanced Settings:
Pager Server: 202.43.216.31
Pager Port:80
File Transfer Port:80
Comment by ibrahim — October 29, 2009 @ 4:24 pm |
cn.scs.msg.yahoo.com is the correct one for the ubuntu. its works on my Pidgin 2.4.3
Thank You.
Comment by Samar Maharjan — November 7, 2009 @ 1:11 am |