Pidgin how to setup up yahoo account Ubuntu?

Answer 1

Here are some easy steps to configure pidgin for Yahoo account

1) Click Accounts then Manage Accounts.

2) click Add button.

3) select YAHOO as a protocol.

4) write your Username in username column.

5) write your yahoo password in Password column.

6) Sign In ( Enjoy !!!)

Comment 2012 12 11: Above method tried on Lubuntu 12.10 platform with pidgin 2.10.6:

I had read alot of other online help, they suggested entering @yahoo.com at the end of your username. This produced a "username@yahoo.com disabled" message, followed with an "Error 1013: The username you have entered is invalid. The most common cause of this error is entering your email address instead of your Yahoo! ID.".

I then read this article, and suddenly it occurred to me that the articles that I read on maemo.org and blog.mypapit.net were written in 2009, so it might no longer be necessary to add "@yahoo.com" on the end. I deleted the @yahoo.com and the above worked. In case anyone was fooling around with their advanced tab, mine was as follows:

Pager port: 5050

File transfer server: filetransfer.msg.yahoo.com

File transfer port: 80

Chat room locale: us

Encoding: UTF-8

(checkbox) Unchecked Ignore conference and chatroom invitation

(chckbox) Unchecked Use account proxy for HTTP and HTTPS connections