[NBLUG/talk] GAIM and Yahoo

[Warren Raquel]

Yeah, it sucks. There's a source RPM with the patch at 
http://www.linuxwhore.com/gaim/. I didn't pick the name although it's 
kinda funny.

Eric Eisenhart wrote:

>On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 06:05:47PM -0800, Todd Cary wrote:
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>>Has anyone had luck getting gaim working with Yahoo?
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>AFAIK, no released version of gaim works with Yahoo due to Yahoo (again)
>changing the protocol in an (presumably) attempt to keep clients Yahoo
>didn't make themselves from using their servers.
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>http://gaim.sourceforge.net/ has a note related to that at the top.
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>They're working on it.
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>Upgrade to Gaim 0.76 as soon as it comes out.
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>Or if you really need Yahoo to work, you can go to
>http://messenger.yahoo.com/messenger/download/unix.html and download the
>official client and use that until gaim has Yahoo support working again.
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