[133] in im locker bugs
Re: Gaim Yahoo authentication problem
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Arun Tharuvai)
Tue Jul 13 15:36:23 2004
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 15:29:10 -0400
From: Arun Tharuvai <tharuvai@gmail.com>
To: Sriganesh Lokanathan <sganesh@mit.edu>, bug-im@mit.edu, aatharuv@mit.edu
In-Reply-To: <1089742971.14748.0.camel@w20-575-75.mit.edu>
Hello Sriganesh,
Yahoo changes their authentication protocol every few months to
prevent third-party programs
like Gaim from connecting to their Messenger. I'll install an updated
version of Gaim which fixes
this issue sometime late this evening or tomorrow, and email you when
it's working. Until then,
you might want to try ymessenger, Yahoo's official messenger client
(on Linux machines only),
which _might_ work (I haven't tested it against the new authentication
scheme, and can't for
another few hours).
Arun
for SIPB
To run ymessenger (also in the im locker), type
add im;
ymessenger &
On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 14:22:52 -0400, Sriganesh Lokanathan
<sganesh@mit.edu> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I can't seem to log onto Yahoo messenger on Gaim. I know others don't
> have this problem so I was wondering what the issue might be?
>
> any ideas?
>
> thank you
>
> Sriganesh
> (sganesh@Mit.edu)
