Re: Can't use gaim with yahoo account

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote:

> I am using debian testing.
> Since I cannot find yahoo messenger in the debian packages, I thought 
> of using gaim. But in gaim, whenever I go to accounts button and click 
> on the on-line box, a window pops up and says something like this
>
> username has been disconnected
> date
> unable to read
>
>    reconnect    close
>
> Even If I click on reconnect, nothing happens...
>
> I am able to use hotmail account without any problem. The only problem 
> is with yahoo account. Can someone tell me what I should do?
>
> thanks
> raju
Same here. Yahoo has a tendency to change their protocol every so often, 
which breaks third-party clients. Not much to do about it except wait 
for the GAIM maintainers to reverse-engineer the new protocol and 
release an updated client, or use Yahoo's client (ymessenger, not in the 
Debian respository, as you've already discovered).

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Kent