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. > -- > Kent > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
