How to Fix Pidgin and Yahoo Issues

Posted on June 21, 2009 by bigbrovar

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
buddy-list

select manage account, choose your yahoo account and click on modify

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.

advance

Try connecting to yahoo again from pidgin. It sure worked for me. I hope it works for you

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  • http://ongola.blogspot.com/ ongola boy

    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

    • http://bigbrovar.wordpress.com/ Bigbrovar

      am sure it would .. but before then this will serve as a quick fix to the issue .. i hope

  • AndyCooll

    Yep, it works. Thanks. :cool:

    • http://www.bigbrovar.wordpress.com bigbrovar

      You’re welcome glad it worked for u

  • Zauber Paracelsus

    This solution doesn’t work, and Yahoo won’t work in Kopete either.

    • HoTMetaL

      It indeed does work. You need to close and restart Pidgin after you make the change.

  • khalidyousif

    worked, thanks :)

    The workaround also worked in GyachE

  • desaparecido

    works in Kopete (kubuntu karmic beta 2,KDE 4.3 beta 2)… thanks…

  • desaparecido

    oops.. it’s a detail but is kubuntu karmic alpha 2 :-)

  • John

    worked :)

    cheers

  • Yee

    It’s work in Ubuntu’s Pidgin.

  • http://misplaced-soul.blogspot.com LVS

    Great tip! Thanks! But, how come even older versions of YM work?

  • http://kunaljanu.wordpress.com Kunal

    It sure works!
    thanks man, without people like you it’s hard to browse the web :)

  • zenwalker

    Thanks mate.. It worked…

  • http://www.atheistblog.org Vlad Nistor

    Or you could just install Pidgin 2.5.7 where it’s been fixed :)

  • http://nthacutez.blogspot.com nitaluvrain

    it says “could not estabilish a connection with a server : connection refused”

    i just copied the server above.

    but why it could not connect?

  • http://cwwolf.com Cloud

    Try
    cn.scs.msg.yahoo.com
    That is working today

  • Alex

    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!

  • jua

    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

  • Chris

    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.

  • NomadRhodes

    I tried this and it still didn’t work what else can i try?
    Thank you for your help..

  • bumpy

    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!

  • dwpbike

    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.

  • http://www.kinleyconsulting.com Barrie Callender

    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?

  • Drib Trebor

    cn.scs.msg.yahoo.com Is the way to go. Thanks for the help all!

  • mickey12gauge

    Nope… Did not work for me and this issue is rather upsetting.

  • http://www.nistor.co.uk Vlad Nistor

    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

  • http://myspace.com/southwestscary Buck Lucky

    GET THIS GUY SOME DRINKS!
    Thank you!
    Harrison.Vel aKa Buck Lucky

    • http://bigbrovar.wordpress.com/ Bigbrovar

      awww that is so nice of you Buck. I will have a bottle of sprite please :D

  • ibrahim

    That worked for me
    thx alot

    Under Advanced Settings:
    Pager Server: 202.43.216.31
    Pager Port:80
    File Transfer Port:80

  • Samar Maharjan

    cn.scs.msg.yahoo.com is the correct one for the ubuntu. its works on my Pidgin 2.4.3

    Thank You.