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