Re: unable to connect with gaim to yahoo messenger
On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 10:53:48AM -0600, Kent West wrote:
> Micha Feigin wrote:
>
> >I just tried connecting with gaim to a yahoo messenger account for the
> >first time and I can't get it working.
> >as far as I can tell I have a profile (I have a yahoo email and it
> >seems to me that I activated the messenger profile).
> >When I try to connect I get the error that the user has been
> >disconnected with an error "unable to read"
> >Any ideas?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> You don't say what version of Debian/gaim you're using; I know that
> Yahoo tends to do things behind the scenes that often breaks gaim until
> the gaim developers work around the issue. I've seen this error when
> that happens; then I wait a few days/weeks, apt-get upgrade and get a
> new version of gaim, and then gaim starts working again. (I'm running sid.)
>
I am using unstable.
> gaim was working just fine for me about a week ago, but now it won't
> connect; this time the error is different than I've ever seen before; it
> says "incorrect password". So I logged into the web browser-based
> version, and logged in just fine with my username/password, so I assume
> Yahoo has done something new to break third-party IM clients such as gaim.
>
> You might try the web-based version (via my.yahoo.com), or you can
> download/install Yahoo's client for Linux (ymessenger - works fine; I
> like gaim slightly better, and I prefer it over ymessenger because it's
> open source), or perhaps try another 3rd party client, or download the
> newest gaim source and compile it yourself and hope the problem is fixed
> in there (or do your own reverse-engineering and fix it).
>
> Sorry I didn't have a quick fix for gaim for you.
>
Thanx, it was more a question of whether its me missing something basic
or gaim being faulty.
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> Kent
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