[opensuse] Yahoo! Messenger & Gaim on 10.0?
Hi, Suddenly Yahoo! Messenger up and disconnected me and now, unlike any time in the past, I'm being told that the YM server "requested the use of an unrecognized authentication method." And that "This version of Gaim will likely not be able to successfully sign on to Yahoo." I've tried repeatedly to log in and the same thing happens every time. Has anybody else seen this? Is it permanent? I logged in to YM from my Mac using the latest (version 3 beta) version of the Yahoo! Messenger software and it worked, so it's not that I don't have the right password or that there's some kind of communication problem between me and the YM servers. Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Saturday 06 December 2008, Randall R Schulz wrote:
Hi,
Suddenly Yahoo! Messenger up and disconnected me and now, unlike any time in the past, I'm being told that the YM server "requested the use of an unrecognized authentication method." And that "This version of Gaim will likely not be able to successfully sign on to Yahoo." I've tried repeatedly to log in and the same thing happens every time.
Has anybody else seen this? Is it permanent? I logged in to YM from my Mac using the latest (version 3 beta) version of the Yahoo! Messenger software and it worked, so it's not that I don't have the right password or that there's some kind of communication problem between me and the YM servers.
Randall Schulz
I think there were some changes at Yahoo's end earlier this year where the minimum version of the protocol supported/accepted was changed, or something like that, so as to "clean up" the user base of old clients and to get people upgrade their old Windows software to newer versions that better help Yahoo make money on them. Hence, clients reporting too old a version of the login and/or IM protocol were (supposedly) from that point on shut out. Pidgin at that time announced an old version of the protocol when logging into Yahoo and was therefore sent an error message telling the client is too old, and all access to the service was thus denied. I saw this myself at some time in the summer: Suddenly, Yahoo would no longer let me log in, no matter what. Upgrading to the latest Pidgin solved the issue. Regards, Tero Pesonen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Friday 05 December 2008 16:48, Tero Pesonen wrote:
On Saturday 06 December 2008, Randall R Schulz wrote:
Hi,
Suddenly Yahoo! Messenger up and disconnected me and now, unlike any time in the past, I'm being told that the YM server "requested the use of an unrecognized authentication method." And that "This version of Gaim will likely not be able to successfully sign on to Yahoo." I've tried repeatedly to log in and the same thing happens every time.
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I think there were some changes at Yahoo's end earlier this year where the minimum version of the protocol supported/accepted was changed, or something like that, so as to "clean up" the user base of old clients and to get people upgrade their old Windows software to newer versions that better help Yahoo make money on them. Hence, clients reporting too old a version of the login and/or IM protocol were (supposedly) from that point on shut out. Pidgin at that time announced an old version of the protocol when logging into Yahoo and was therefore sent an error message telling the client is too old, and all access to the service was thus denied.
I saw this myself at some time in the summer: Suddenly, Yahoo would no longer let me log in, no matter what. Upgrading to the latest Pidgin solved the issue.
I just built the latest Pidgin source (version 2.5.2) and it seems not to be able to connect, either, though it doesn't overtly fail the way the old Gaim did. I just never get logged in. This is very disappointing. Is Yahoo! trying to exclude clients other than their own?
Regards, Tero Pesonen
Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Saturday 06 December 2008, Randall R Schulz wrote:
On Friday 05 December 2008 16:48, Tero Pesonen wrote:
On Saturday 06 December 2008, Randall R Schulz wrote:
Hi,
Suddenly Yahoo! Messenger up and disconnected me and now, unlike any time in the past, I'm being told that the YM server "requested the use of an unrecognized authentication method." And that "This version of Gaim will likely not be able to successfully sign on to Yahoo." I've tried repeatedly to log in and the same thing happens every time.
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I think there were some changes at Yahoo's end earlier this year where the minimum version of the protocol supported/accepted was changed, or something like that, so as to "clean up" the user base of old clients and to get people upgrade their old Windows software to newer versions that better help Yahoo make money on them. Hence, clients reporting too old a version of the login and/or IM protocol were (supposedly) from that point on shut out. Pidgin at that time announced an old version of the protocol when logging into Yahoo and was therefore sent an error message telling the client is too old, and all access to the service was thus denied.
I saw this myself at some time in the summer: Suddenly, Yahoo would no longer let me log in, no matter what. Upgrading to the latest Pidgin solved the issue.
I just built the latest Pidgin source (version 2.5.2) and it seems not to be able to connect, either, though it doesn't overtly fail the way the old Gaim did. I just never get logged in.
This is very disappointing. Is Yahoo! trying to exclude clients other than their own?
I no longer use Yahoo, so I cannot test this myself. I suggest you take the issue to the Pidgin users' (or support or some such) mailing list where the people who know the protocol can help you diagnose the root of the problem. Regards, Tero Pesonen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Saturday 06 December 2008, Randall R Schulz wrote:
I just built the latest Pidgin source (version 2.5.2) and it seems not to be able to connect, either, though it doesn't overtly fail the way the old Gaim did. I just never get logged in.
This is very disappointing. Is Yahoo! trying to exclude clients other than their own?
Around the same time (about 9 hours ago), I was also having trouble logging in to Yahoo with Kopete. Kopete would try forever, but not be able to connect. So it's not just Pidgin. On the bright side, Kopete can connect just fine now. It was probably a glitch on the other end. HTH, Joop
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Around the same time (about 9 hours ago), I was also having trouble logging in to Yahoo with Kopete. Kopete would try forever, but not be able to connect. So it's not just Pidgin. On the bright side, Kopete can connect just fine now. It was probably a glitch on the other end.
Yahoo was doing maintenance. I got a pop up about trying to log in w/ pidgin today. -- Michael S. Dunsavage -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Saturday 06 December 2008 00:44, Michael S. Dunsavage wrote:
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Around the same time (about 9 hours ago), I was also having trouble logging in to Yahoo with Kopete. Kopete would try forever, but not be able to connect. So it's not just Pidgin. On the bright side, Kopete can connect just fine now. It was probably a glitch on the other end.
Yahoo was doing maintenance. I got a pop up about trying to log in w/ pidgin today.
Confirmed (the fact that login is again possible, not the reason why, which I don't know). I wonder why it was possible for me to log in from my Mac running Yahoo!'s own client during this episode? And why the specific dialog was about unsupported authentication method?
-- Michael S. Dunsavage
Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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