Fix for pidgin not connecting to Yahoo

Posted on June 20, 2009 by Marvin

update: scsa.msg.yahoo.com seems to work now. This is the default address in 2.5.8 for Ubuntu and Windows versions.

After a few search terms finding what’s going on recently with pidgin that it’s unable to connect to Yahoo. I found a correct temporary fix

~~using the page server: cn.scs.msg.yahoo.com instead of scs.msg.yahoo.com did the trick.~~

10 thoughts on “Fix for pidgin not connecting to Yahoo”

Sean on June 22, 2009 at 8:05 am said:

This solution works for me, also! Thanks!

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srikanth on June 22, 2009 at 1:37 pm said:

Thank you very much I am googling from past 10 days for this …. Now I got it… but is there any permanent solution for this??

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Marvin on June 22, 2009 at 2:15 pm said:

Not at the moment, I believe. But pidgin dev are aware of this, I can say. As there are lot of bug reports coming in. And eventually, update will be released. Its on Yahoo servers side that’s blocking pidgin. Either they contact Yahoo or do the adjustment in the update.

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Jake on June 22, 2009 at 9:25 pm said:

This is an issue with Adium for Mac also. The same fix applies.

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Mukund on June 23, 2009 at 10:28 pm said:

Works for me!:) Thanks a lot!

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hima on June 24, 2009 at 8:05 pm said:

lov u da…it works

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Bryan on June 25, 2009 at 7:57 am said:

Works for me too. I hope pidgin has fix out before yahoo updates all it’s servers.

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Saurabh Tiwari on June 25, 2009 at 5:37 pm said:

besides the above, you can have several other

mcs.msg.yahoo.com

scs.msg.yahoo.com

scsa.msg.yahoo.com

scsb.msg.yahoo.com

scsc.msg.yahoo.com

scsd.msg.yahoo.com

scse.msg.yahoo.com

scsf.msg.yahoo.com

scsg.msg.yahoo.com

scsh.msg.yahoo.com

cn.scs.msg.yahoo.com

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Marvin on June 25, 2009 at 9:58 pm said:

Thanks Saurabh

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Anil on July 1, 2009 at 4:27 am said:

Works for me. Thanks

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