It was a week or two ago when Pidgin failed to connect with any of my yahoo accounts. I tried logging in to the important ones through my email, the webmessenger, or the desktop yahoo messenger, but it’s definitely not the same. They are always fighting each other.
Finally I searched and found an answer in Yahoo Answers on how to edit your yahoo server preferences. It didn’t work for me, though the others who tried it seemed to have had success.
Another week passed, and I was basically tearing out my hair, unable to be logged on to all the accounts I usually receive messages on. I went to the Pidgin site, where it said there was a new release with the problem fixed. I upgraded, but still could not connect.
Finally I found a blog on the site that explained the issue. Apparently, over the years, yahoo has changed the login encryption type several times, though various servers were still accepting the old encryption types. Finally they just eliminated the obsolete ones, leaving those of us who use a client like Pidgin that relied on the old server protocol SOL.
What I had to do was undo the fix that I made last week. If you are still having this problem, it means you haven’t upgraded to the latest pidgin. Just go do it and you should be back in business.
