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Adium yahoo account error invalid screen name ?
Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2007 2:01 am
by RedNano
i need help with my screen name it never get login with adium
i think because of the dot
my screen name is
could you help
thanks
Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2007 9:51 am
by Galindorf
Hey RedNano--
I just got Adium today and I had the same problem with one of my yahoo accounts. It was because I had a space in the name. I took the space out and it worked like a charm.
Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2007 11:55 pm
by tokennrg
I'm having a similar problem in that my screen names contains an _ as in
john_doe@yahoo.com Kopete and Trillian seemed to work ok with it. Is this Adium Specific?
Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2007 12:13 am
by evands
tokennrg, enter your name without the @yahoo.com at the end. Your specific problem has already been fixed for Adium 1.1, which will ignore the '@yahoo.com' if it is entered; Adium 1.0.2, the current version, does not have do this.
Spaces aren't valid characters for Yahoo names; Galindorf, are you sure your proper Yahoo name really has a space in it?
Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2007 5:23 pm
by Kival
Hello, I've the same problem. I always get the error "Invalid screen name", when I try to login. Other messenger does not make any problems (ICQ, MSN, AiM, Google-Talk...).
I've tried it with the yahoo-messenger itself and it works out...
The preferences:
Servers: cs.yahoo.co.jp
Country: Argentina (I came from Germany, but I don't think, that it is important, which country one choose there (my own is not mentioned there))
Port: 5050
I also tried it with @yahoo.com and without.
I use Adium X 1.0.2 and Max Os X 10.5.9
Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2007 5:31 pm
by evands
Have you tried Yahoo! Japan - it looks like you're trying to use that.
Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2007 5:35 pm
by Kival
Ah.. yes...Very silly. Thank you, now it works out.