adding a google hosted email to pidgin

[Adam Chernow]

Joshua Montemayor wrote:

> I am Google Apps for Your Domain user. We have access to Google Talk but 
> I am unable to add my hosted account to Pidgin. I’ve tried it with 
> ‘username at gmail.com’ and with ‘username at mydomain.com’. Neither of these 
> options work. I keep getting different errors every time. The latest 
> error was a ‘write error’.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Here's how I have it set up...

Basic tab:

Screen name: username
Domain: mydomain.com

Advanced tab:

all the check boxes are unchecked
Connect port: 5222
Connect server: talk.google.com
Use global proxy settings

This is on Pidgin for Windows.  I used account type Google Talk if that 
helps any.

-Adam

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