I can't connect to my google apps account

[darkweasel]

Cristian Gómez schrieb:
> Hi there, first of all........Happy New Year!!!!!
>
> Now, start with the issue: I have pidgin 2.5.3 installed (on GNU/Linux 
> Ubuntu) and I successfully configured my gmail and msn accounts but, 
> for some reason, I can't Connect to my google apps account from 
> pidgin. This is how I configured my account:
>
> Protocol: XMPP
> User: cgomez
> Domain: almeraim.com <http://almeraim.com>
> Source: Home
> Password: ******
>
> I don't know if this could help, but I paste the output of Help->About 
> Menu on Pidgin:
>
> //-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *Arguments to /./configure/:* '--build=i486-linux-gnu' '--prefix=/usr' 
> '--includedir=${prefix}/include' '--mandir=${prefix}/share/man' 
> '--infodir=${prefix}/share/info' '--sysconfdir=/etc' 
> '--localstatedir=/var' '--libexecdir=${prefix}/lib/pidgin' 
> '--disable-maintainer-mode' '--disable-dependency-tracking' 
> '--enable-gevolution' '--enable-cap' 
> '--with-system-ssl-certs=/etc/ssl/certs' '--enable-perl' 
> '--with-zephyr=/usr' '--enable-dbus' '--enable-gnutls=no' 
> '--enable-nss=yes' '--enable-cyrus-sasl' 'build_alias=i486-linux-gnu' 
> 'CC=cc' 'CFLAGS=-fstack-protector' 'LDFLAGS=-Wl,--as-needed' 'CPPFLAGS='
> *Print debugging messages:* No
> *Plugins:* Enabled
> *SSL:* SSL support is present.
>
> *Library Support*
> *Cyrus SASL:* Enabled
> *D-Bus:* Enabled
> *Evolution Addressbook:* Enabled
> *Gadu-Gadu library (libgadu):* Enabled
> *GtkSpell:* Enabled
> *GnuTLS:* Disabled
> *GStreamer:* Enabled
> *Mono:* Disabled
> *NetworkManager:* Enabled
> *Network Security Services (NSS):* Enabled
> *Perl:* Enabled
> *Startup Notification:* Enabled
> *Tcl:* Disabled
> *Tk:* Disabled
> *X Session Management:* Enabled
> *XScreenSaver:* Enabled
> *Zephyr library (libzephyr):* External
> *Zephyr uses Kerberos:* No
> //-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Thanks for your time.....I hope you can help me out.
>
> Bye
>
> -- 
> ***************************************
> * Cristian Gómez Alvarez          
> * Ingeniero en Sistemas y Computación
> * Universidad de Caldas  
> * Grupo Ubuntu Manizales.          
> * GNU/Linux User #463617                  
> * Ubuntu User # 20733                
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I also use a Google Apps account (darkweasel at euirc.eu) and found that 
these don't seem to work as Jabber IDs - I couldn't connect to it using 
Gajim either.