Re: Connection problems to Yahoo, AIM and MSN

2008-11-06 Thread Lee Roach
On 11/5/08, T L [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Hello.

 Over the past 2 months I've been unable to connect to my chat accounts on 
 Yahoo, AIM and MSN.  All three have different errors and symptoms. My 
 GoogleChat accounts function fine in Pidgin (v2.5.2) on Windows XP.

 Here is a brief review of what I am seeing:

 Upon starting Pidgin, GoogleChat logs in no problem, but all three other 
 accounts instantly fail to connect.  The errors specified in the bottom 
 notification area are:

 yahoo account: user disconnected
 Lost connection with server:
 Remote host closed connection

 aol account: user disconnected
 Lost connection with server:
 Remote host closed connection

 msn account: user disconnected
 Connection error from Notification server:
 Writing error

 Pidgin will continue throughout the day to attempt to reconnect to these 
 accounts, and on occasion it succeeds in connecting to my yahoo chat account. 
  However, as soon as I enter a message and send it, it disconnected with the 
 same error as specified above and the message never gets sent.

 There have been no changes in my firewall, and I am pulling my hair out 
 trying to figure out what the issue is.

 Can anyone help?  I would be happy to provide any additional information if 
 it will help.

 Thank you.

 - Tobias

Typically the Remote host closed connection messages are symptoms of
a malfunctioning software firewall. Most software firewalls for
Windows are incapable of fully allowing a program/port/service
unhindered access.

Try upgrading your firewall, and see if the information in the wiki
[1] helps out any.

Of course, if you're not using a firewall, or are absolutely certain
it's not to blame, please get a debug log [2] of one of those accounts
connecting, and create a new ticket [3] with the debug report
attached.

[1]: http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/Using%20Pidgin#windowsfirewall
[2]: http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/TipsForBugReports#ObtainingaDebugLog
[3]: http://developer.pidgin.im/newticket

-Lee

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Connection problems to Yahoo, AIM and MSN

2008-11-05 Thread T L
Hello.

Over the past 2 months I've been unable to connect to my chat accounts on
Yahoo, AIM and MSN.  All three have different errors and symptoms. My
GoogleChat accounts function fine in Pidgin (v2.5.2) on Windows XP.

Here is a brief review of what I am seeing:

Upon starting Pidgin, GoogleChat logs in no problem, but all three other
accounts instantly fail to connect.  The errors specified in the bottom
notification area are:

yahoo account: user disconnected
Lost connection with server:
Remote host closed connection

aol account: user disconnected
Lost connection with server:
Remote host closed connection

msn account: user disconnected
Connection error from Notification server:
Writing error

Pidgin will continue throughout the day to attempt to reconnect to these
accounts, and on occasion it succeeds in connecting to my yahoo chat
account.  However, as soon as I enter a message and send it, it disconnected
with the same error as specified above and the message never gets sent.

There have been no changes in my firewall, and I am pulling my hair out
trying to figure out what the issue is.

Can anyone help?  I would be happy to provide any additional information if
it will help.

Thank you.

- Tobias
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