How to solve Pidgin Yahoo Messenger Connection Problem
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Lately, it seems that some people are having trouble connecting pidgin to Yahoo Messenger services. The problem seems to be associated with the Yahoo server itself.
Solving the Yahoo Messenger problem
A temporary solution for this problem is to change the Pidgin YM server setting.
Go to Accounts->Select your YM screen name->Edit Account->Advance.
Then change the original value of “scs.msg.yahoo.com” to any of these ip address:
66.163.181.183, 66.163.181.166 , 66.163.181.169, 66.163.181.170, 66.163.181.172, 66.163.181.171, 66.163.181.181, 66.163.181.182
As shown on the screenshot :
Note that this is only a temporary solution and you should only use this as the last resort.
Tags: chat, internet, linux, pidgin, yahoo messenger, ym
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June 21st, 2009 at 5:42 pm
this problem happen on all ym client,
not only pidgin.
June 22nd, 2009 at 8:51 am
thanks man. indeed this was my last resort.
June 22nd, 2009 at 10:23 pm
I tried the solution, and I think it worked, but then Pidgin prompted me to download version 2.5.7, which has this issue fixed without any workarounds. Thanks for the info, though.
June 23rd, 2009 at 12:55 am
Thanks a lot for the info
June 23rd, 2009 at 9:26 am
thanks…
updated my pidgin to the latest 2.5.7…
June 23rd, 2009 at 7:16 pm
thanks!!!
June 24th, 2009 at 1:38 am
thanks!!!
June 24th, 2009 at 3:44 am
This instantly and completely solved my problem (using Pidgin 2.1.1 on Win2k, so a little behind the times). Couldn’t get the new Yahoo IM client to work at all (version 9), and earlier versions won’t even seem to start up anymore because of firewall proxy issues, so this is the only thing keeping me in touch when at work :) Thanks!
June 24th, 2009 at 7:25 am
Thanks!
I run Ubuntu on my work desktop and connect to 3 different IM servers (Yahoo, Google & GroupWise). Yahoo stopped working when I logged in yesterday. Finally took the time to Google and your solution fixed it 100%.
June 24th, 2009 at 10:04 am
This used to work up until a couple days ago. Now I’m stuck again on my Ubuntu desktop (the fix is in pidgin 2.5.7 which is not yet in the repositories for Jaunty).
June 24th, 2009 at 12:35 pm
This stopped working some time recently.
Now we just need to get the Fedora folks to update pidgin and libpurple in Fedora 11.
June 24th, 2009 at 8:15 pm
This stopped working today on my Suse.
June 25th, 2009 at 12:59 am
This stop working today using the latest Pidgin for window. :(
June 25th, 2009 at 3:32 am
Worked a few days ago, but not today on Ubuntu Hardy Heron
June 25th, 2009 at 7:34 am
Same here…. your solution worked great for a day or two but now I have the same problem… Pidgin cannot connect with Yahoo Messenger. I’m running Jaunty Ubuntu…
June 25th, 2009 at 9:36 am
yeah its work, perfect solution, i can connect pidgin after update my ubuntu. try to change with kopete but can’t connect to. NOW with change to cn.scs.msg.yahoo.com everything ok.
thanks man
June 26th, 2009 at 5:26 am
to make yahoo msgr work again change the yahoo server back to scs.msg.yahoo.com
June 26th, 2009 at 8:40 am
Could not establish connection with server
Connection refused even after typing the ip addr
June 26th, 2009 at 10:59 am
I tried every thing and still getting “Could not establish connection with server
Connection refused”
What else can I do :( ? please help..
June 26th, 2009 at 5:28 pm
Hi, same for me. It worked a few days using the numeric ip address. Switching back to scs.msg.yahoo.com makes pidgin stuck in the “connecting” state (Pidgin 2.5.5 on Linux Jaunty)
June 26th, 2009 at 9:07 pm
cn.scs.msg.yahoo.com works now on SUSE (not scs.msg.yahoo.com)
June 26th, 2009 at 10:18 pm
cn.scs.msg.yahoo.com confirmed on CentOS as well at 10:15a EST 6/26/09
June 27th, 2009 at 12:02 am
Problem Solved in latest version (2.5.7)
June 27th, 2009 at 1:32 am
none of the changing IP stuff works at all! Kind of pisses me off that yahoo pulled the plug. Anyway sha-1 suggestion worked for me!!!! I’m on Fedora 11 and pidgin 2.5.7-1
cn.scs.msg.yahoo.com
June 27th, 2009 at 3:44 am
I also tried this solution and at work and it didn’t like the option, so I updated 2.5.7 and seems to be working fine now.
June 27th, 2009 at 5:04 am
cn.scs.msg.yahoo.com confirmed on Ubuntu Ibex with pidgin 2.5.7
June 27th, 2009 at 5:38 am
cn.scs.msg.yahoo.com confirmed working on Ubuntu Jaunty with 2.5.5 pidgin, no more “Connecting…” issue
June 27th, 2009 at 6:50 am
Hi. Does anyone know a way to connect to the yahoo chatrooms? The list of rooms comes up but on clicking a room nothing happens.
June 27th, 2009 at 7:37 pm
Even in Pidgin 2.4.1 Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy, cn.scs.msg.yahoo.com works . . .
Thanks guys. :D
June 28th, 2009 at 10:50 am
For those of you running Ubuntu (any version), go to the official Pidgin Website (http://www.pidgin.im/) and follow the steps for “downloading 2.5.7″. Basically, you have to add the official Pidgin PPA Repositories to Apt, then run Update Manager. It will then upgrade 2.5.7 over the version from the Ubuntu repositories.
June 29th, 2009 at 6:43 am
cn.scs.msg.yahoo.com
This works for me, too. Thanks for that.
I’ve got an Ubuntu 9.04 with Pidgin 2.5.5
By the way, I had the same problem with Empathy 2.26.1
and this helped, too.
June 29th, 2009 at 3:14 pm
I have downloaded pidgin 2.5.8 but still yahoo is not working.. :-( any other solution ??
June 29th, 2009 at 9:45 pm
Uhh.. cn.scs.msg.yahoo.com appears to be in China.
Will all of our IM’s be passing through the Great Firewall of China if we use that server?
July 1st, 2009 at 2:06 am
Tried cn.scs.msg.yahoo.com on Pidgin Portable. It worked…for about a minute, then started crashing it every minute. None of the IPs seem to work anymore. Any other suggestions? Currently using v2.5.5.
July 2nd, 2009 at 8:26 am
This is the latest fix, and it worked for me, to boot!
http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-to-Fix-Yahoo-problem-in-Pidgin-114754.shtml
Once it got logins going (and failing), I had to go back and remove that @yahoo.com from my original account setup as well.
July 9th, 2009 at 12:18 am
I had similar problems with pidgin not connecting to yahoo chat rooms. Temporarily fixing the problem by changing the server did not work fully.
However after upgrading to pidgin 2.5.8 for ubuntu, (see http://pidgin.im/download/ubuntu/ ) by setting up the PPA, the issue for a while did not get resolved!
The problem was with the changed server settings- the ‘ ‘cs’ added before the default settings as bugfix earlier needed to be removed manually now. Once done, I am able to access Yahoo chat rooms as before.
July 15th, 2009 at 10:41 pm
cn.scs.msg.yahoo.com
worked for me.. tnx =)
August 13th, 2009 at 6:11 am
Yeah just upgrade to the latest version of Pidgin. I am using 2.5.8 right now and it is working perfectly fine. What a great program when its working and yahoo doesn’t make a workaround to stop it . Gmail, yahoo, hotmail all up and running its nice.
August 26th, 2009 at 3:35 pm
Upgrading just fixed mine. Oddly mine only worked wrong with 1 of several accounts, furthermore I was able to receive under the current Ubuntu version of pidgin in the one broken account, and appeared to send too but sent messages were not received.
August 27th, 2009 at 6:25 pm
Thanks for providing easiest solution to yahoo messenger connection problem.
Thanks & Regards
Salina Clark
October 1st, 2009 at 10:05 pm
Didn’t work for me. :(
October 12th, 2009 at 5:51 am
Upgrading (well linking to the latest repos in Linux) worked for me when this issue hit for the 2nd time back in June. But then on the afternoon of Oct 8th it stopped working and I can’t find any new info. Yahoo sux. I only link to it because my wife refuses to use Gmail.
October 31st, 2009 at 10:33 pm
yahoo just sucks … they are the only remaining ones to change without reasons and notices their protocols …
just avoid yahoo.
November 5th, 2009 at 1:02 am
bubble
December 15th, 2009 at 3:32 pm
On RHEL4, gaim started working for yahoo messenger, when I changed pager server to “cn.scs.msg.yahoo.com”
December 17th, 2009 at 1:33 pm
Seems to login but doesn’t fetch any buddy names or status… unlike the pidgin/Gmail account which does.
March 9th, 2010 at 4:08 am
hmm anybody have a working pager server? Mine just went down today..I updated my to 2.5.8 (U3 version) and still doesn’t work.
March 19th, 2010 at 3:53 am
it didn’t work for me! :( :-<
April 24th, 2010 at 1:25 pm
yahoo client with pidgin 2.4.1 has stopped working on fedora 8. Tried with Gyachi 1.1.71, but didnt work. :( can anyone suggest how to fix it pls?
February 10th, 2011 at 10:49 pm
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June 17th, 2011 at 4:28 pm
FYI I am using Pidgin 2.6.2 (libpurple 2.6.2)
on opensuse 11.2
and i leave the field blank
In Accounts –> Advanced –> Page server
Leave it blank it will be filled automatically and u r connected…
Cool ??
November 24th, 2012 at 1:46 am
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December 11th, 2012 at 11:22 am
I tried this method, but since the “Advanced tab” for pidgin 2.10.6 only has the following:
Pager port: 5050
File transfer server: filetransfer.msg.yahoo.com
File transfer port: 80
Chat room locale: us
Encoding: UTF-8
(checkbox) Unchecked Ignore conference and chatroom invitation
(chckbox) Unchecked Use account proxy for HTTP and HTTPS connections
Since 2.10.6 only has the above options, where possibly can I input the IP addresses for the pager server?
December 11th, 2012 at 12:11 pm
I finally succeeded in loging onto my yahoo messenger account.
Originally I encountered the “[email protected] disabled” message, followed with an “Error 1013: The username you have entered is invalid. The most common cause of this error is entering your email address instead of your Yahoo! ID.”
From start I had my full yahoo email address in the username cell (Basic Tab). I deleted the “@yahoo.com” part of my username and the basic settings worked. In case anyone was fooling around with their advanced tab, mine was as follows:
Pager port: 5050
File transfer server: filetransfer.msg.yahoo.com
File transfer port: 80
Chat room locale: us
Encoding: UTF-8
(checkbox) Unchecked Ignore conference and chatroom invitation
(chckbox) Unchecked Use account proxy for HTTP and HTTPS connections