Solved Pidgin 2.10.10 and Yahoo Messenger

[Deleted member 3645]

I'm running FreeBSD 10.1-release and using the latest Pidgin 2.10.10 package.

When I try to connect with Yahoo Messenger it fails with this message:

Account locked: Too many failed login attempts.  Logging into the Yahoo! website may fix this.

This is simply untrue. On Linux Pidgin 2.10.10 works fine. An earlier version of Pidgin works fine under OpenBSD 5.6 too.

Is anyone using Yahoo Messenger on FreeBSD? If so what client are you using?

 

[qsecofr]

I'm using Pidgin port version 2.10.9_4, but I'm on the FreeBSD 9-RELEASE series. Yahoo Messenger does work for me, though.

 

[Deleted member 3645]

Thanks. I tried turning off the firewall, but that made no difference.

 

[Deleted member 3645]

This "bug" turns out to be "operator error".

The error message is given for any invalid userid/password.