Thanks for the response John, It's happening in yahoo_auth16_stage1_cb and apparently there's already a related ticket for this: Ticket #10776
"Too many failed logins" actually gets you error 1213 (ticket #10286) And logging into the website doesn't help at all, in fact this also happens with newly created accounts. -Dario On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 12:58 AM, John Bailey <rekkano...@rekkanoryo.org> wrote: > On 02/02/2010 05:32 PM, Dario Laverde wrote: >> I'm getting the following login error from login.yahoo.com with pidgin >> 2.6.5 and was wondering if anyone else has gotten this: >> >> yahoo, Authentication error: Account locked: Unknown reason. Logging >> into the Yahoo! website may fix this.. Code 1236 >> >> Anyone know what code 1236 means? > > Generally, error 1236 can mean two different things, depending on when it's > received. When received early in the login process (during the HTTPS auth > requests), it means that the account has too many failed login attempts--you > must log into yahoo's site and potentially wait a while before trying pidgin > again. When received later in the login process (after auth is complete), we > don't yet know what it means. I don't recall if we handle that error during > auth or not. We'd need a debug log to tell when you're receiving the error, > but > I would try logging into the website and waiting a while first. > > John _______________________________________________ Support@pidgin.im mailing list Want to unsubscribe? Use this link: http://pidgin.im/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support