Authentication problem

[Colin.T]

Further to my eMail concerning "Authentication failure" problem with Pidgin (v2.7.5), as appended. I took note of your upgrade advice of v2.7.7 of today's date, which alleges to have overcome the SSL Certificate issue(s) that causes the Authentication failure. However, after downloading, installing v2.7.7 and rebooting, I am disappointed to find that the Authentication failure problem has not been resolved. Ultimately and in desperation I uninstalled Pidgin, [cold] rebooted, defragmented and then [cold] rebooted again before reinstalling Pidgin v2.7.7. However, all that didn't make any difference, I still receive the "Authentication failure" ErrMsg. Furthermore, I used Internet Explorer (IE) (not my default browser) to log in to and out of my mail server believing IE may issue the appropriate SSL Certificate, but that didn't solve the problem either. I also used my default web browser, Mozilla Firefox, to access my eMail server, but without any success either. Sincerely, Colin S. Tonks On 20/11/2010 08:17, David Woolley wrote: V S Rawat wrote: sometimes some email id locks your account for some duration when you try to log in many times through different software, like chat software or mailreader software etc. This is actually going to be the problem that Microsoft have just introduced with SSL certificates and to which nearly every posting relates. Try logging into your email id website directly, in a browser, then log out from there and then start pidgin. --  Rawat On 11/20/2010 1:28 AM India Time, _Colin.T_ wrote: Are there any known problems with Pidgin (v2.7.5)? Since yesterday morning, 19 November 2010, I have not been able to Enable my installation of Pidgin, it shows "Unable to authenticate:  Authentication Failure". I have un-installed the application, cold re-booted, defragged and cold re-booted again before reinstalling Pidgin v2.7.5. However, that did not resolve the problem, it still can not authenticate. There have been no O/S (XP Pro, SP3) modifications or Malware present (Avast, Spyware Terminator, Ad-Aware, Malwarebytes Anti-Malware, Spybot-Search & Destroy, Spyware Blaster and Super Anti-Spyware ... with only Avast and Spyware Terminator running in real-time). Cheers Colin. --  *** "Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's own ignorance." - Confucius *** _______________________________________________ Support@pidgin.im mailing list Want to unsubscribe?  Use this link: http://pidgin.im/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support

_______________________________________________
Support@pidgin.im mailing list
Want to unsubscribe?  Use this link:
http://pidgin.im/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support