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Yahoo unable to connect

Posted: Thu May 12, 2005 1:02 pm
by zoads
Upon launch yahoo gaim error unable to read appears.Yahoo messenger itself connects fine. :roll:

Re: Yahoo unable to connect

Posted: Thu May 12, 2005 3:36 pm
by Adam Iser
zoads wrote:Upon launch yahoo gaim error unable to read appears.Yahoo messenger itself connects fine. :roll:
Double check host and proxy settings.

Posted: Fri May 13, 2005 12:27 am
by riddle
Thanks for the tip. It worked for me.

I'm a new Adium user and was happy with it when I installed it at work this afternoon but unhappy when I came home and Yahoo gave me the "gaim error unable to read" message.

The fix was to go into Preferences > Accounts > Yahoo > Options and correct the "Login Server" field. It had failed with the host "scs.msg.yahoo.com" but is now working with the host "scs.yahoo.com".

What hostname to enter was a lucky guess based on some Googling. How do we know what the recommended setting should be?

Thanks again.

-- Prentiss Riddle http://prentissriddle.com riddle@io.com

Re: Yahoo unable to connect

Posted: Fri May 13, 2005 12:38 am
by zoads
Adam Iser wrote:
zoads wrote:Upon launch yahoo gaim error unable to read appears.Yahoo messenger itself connects fine. :roll:
Double check host and proxy settings.
It seams to be working ok this evening. :D