How to Fix Pidgin and Yahoo Issues

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

Gnome, Guides.

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

    Thank You.
  • ibrahim
    That worked for me
    thx alot


    Under Advanced Settings:
    Pager Server: 202.43.216.31
    Pager Port:80
    File Transfer Port:80
  • GET THIS GUY SOME DRINKS!
    Thank you!
    Harrison.Vel aKa Buck Lucky
  • awww that is so nice of you Buck. I will have a bottle of sprite please :D
  • 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
  • mickey12gauge
    Nope... Did not work for me and this issue is rather upsetting.
  • Drib Trebor
    cn.scs.msg.yahoo.com Is the way to go. Thanks for the help all!
  • 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?
  • 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.
  • 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!
  • NomadRhodes
    I tried this and it still didn't work what else can i try?
    Thank you for your help..
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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!
  • Try
    cn.scs.msg.yahoo.com
    That is working today
  • it says "could not estabilish a connection with a server : connection refused"

    i just copied the server above.

    but why it could not connect?
  • Or you could just install Pidgin 2.5.7 where it's been fixed :)
  • zenwalker
    Thanks mate.. It worked...
  • It sure works!
    thanks man, without people like you it's hard to browse the web :)
  • LVS
    Great tip! Thanks! But, how come even older versions of YM work?
  • Yee
    It's work in Ubuntu's Pidgin.
  • John
    worked :)

    cheers
  • desaparecido
    oops.. it's a detail but is kubuntu karmic alpha 2 :-)
  • desaparecido
    works in Kopete (kubuntu karmic beta 2,KDE 4.3 beta 2)... thanks...
  • khalidyousif
    worked, thanks :)

    The workaround also worked in GyachE
  • 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.
  • AndyCooll
    Yep, it works. Thanks.
    :cool:
  • You're welcome glad it worked for u
  • 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
  • am sure it would .. but before then this will serve as a quick fix to the issue .. i hope
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