"Yahoo! appears to be upgrading their servers to a new version of their software. This new version requires a new authentication method. The latest version of Pidgin, 2.5.6, does not support this new authentication method. The next version, 2.6.0, will, but it has not yet been released. Version 2.5.7 does. To continue using Yahoo! IM, upgrade to this version. See the Pidgin web-site for details."
Quote from FAQs Pidgin http://www.celticwolf.com/useful-inf...6-pidgin-yahoo
We have the 2.5.1 version which it won't work anymore on Yahoo IM upgraded servers.
I tried their solution, using that list of IPs but with no luck..
So Is this like the end of pidgin on maemo?
I was wondering the same thing myself. I have been dealing with the connection problem since the 18th of June on my N810 and 4 other machines. This problem is not just pidgin specific even though the new version fixes this issue. It affects any non-official clients except for the new version of pidgin. My first post on this issue:
Anyway, I run Archlinux on the desktop and the current version of pidgin fixes these issues but I use Centerim on that machine. I think I will look and see if there is a version of the new pidgin release that I can compile for the N810.
Simply changing the address the server connects to no longer works. That was a temporary fix while not all of the servers were upgraded. As of about 5pm pacific yesterday, the last of the servers were upgraded.
Someone had compiled 2.5.5 for maemo, and discussed it on a forum, after ICQ had changed. We can dig that up and compile 2.5.7. When that happens, we need to get the packages into the repository.
Simply changing the address the server connects to no longer works. That was a temporary fix while not all of the servers were upgraded. As of about 5pm pacific yesterday, the last of the servers were upgraded.
Someone had compiled 2.5.5 for maemo, and discussed it on a forum, after ICQ had changed. We can dig that up and compile 2.5.7. When that happens, we need to get the packages into the repository.
You only really need the upgrade for Yahoo protocol. This is probably some kind of libpurple library.
BTW, this bug also exists in Ubuntu, and there is still no reliability fix as of yet.
Simply dropping in the libpurple files will get you connected, BUT causes new issues. Due to other changes, when you run the newer libpurple with older pidgin, it never sees the people as going offline. I already tested that. Is the case even if you just drop in the yahoo library.
