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.
This solution works for me, also! Thanks!
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??
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.
This is an issue with Adium for Mac also. The same fix applies.
Works for me!:) Thanks a lot!
lov u da…it works
Works for me too. I hope pidgin has fix out before yahoo updates all it’s servers.
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
Thanks Saurabh
Works for me. Thanks