AIM and ICQ accounts are not connecting to pidgin

Adam adam.kumar1983 at gmail.com
Fri Aug 21 04:31:05 EDT 2009


Hi Mark,
Thanks for your reply.

We are running the pidgin in headless mode as it is in our linux server.
And it won't have GUI.

Any information on how to fix it is highly appreciated.

Thanks.

On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 10:36 PM, Mark Doliner <mark at kingant.net> wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 9:42 AM, John Avi<john.avi.1982 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I am trying to add the aim and icq accounts to pidgin-2.6.1  installed in
> > the linux server.
> > but we are unable to connect, where as when we try to connect to the
> yahoo
> > or gmail server
> > they are connecting fine.
> > I have checked the dbus-monitor, for aim and icq it was saying that
> > "Authentication failed"
> > I am attaching the log of the dbus-monitor for both aim and icq.
> > For connecting to icq and aim we are using command line mode as it is in
> the
> > linux server.
> > We are using /usr/local/bin/purple-send to connect.
> > some thing like
> > /usr/local/bin/purple-send PurpleAccountNew string:username
> string:prpl-aim
> > ..
> > /usr/local/bin/purple-send PurpleAccountNew string:username
> string:prpl-icq
> > ..
> > can any one suggest us what might be the problem and possible solution to
> > it.
> > Any help on this is highly appreciated.
>
> Hmm, "Authentication Failed" is really just the class of the
> connection error.  There should be a more detailed error message
> somewhere that describes the problem in more detail.  It Pidgin it
> would be displayed at the bottom of the buddy list.
>
> -Mark
>
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