Cannot connect to Google Talk

[ChO₂]

Google does indeed offer Google Talk for non-Google mail addresses.
However, Google Talk accounts of this kind have actually JabberIDs that
look like "xxxxxxxxxxxxxx at id.talk.google.com" where xxxxxxxxxxxx is some
ugly number like "dkh498gah894h9348t". I thought that it might be
possible to connect to such an account using Pidgin by entering the real
JID. So I created a GoogleTalk account using a non-Google mail address
(for testing) and I eventually figured out what its JID was, but I
didn't manage to log in to that JID using Pidgin.

If you need help with finding out your real JabberID, you can contact me
on Jabber/XMPP, but I'm afraid this will not be useful for you. (My
JabberID is the same as my E-Mail address.)

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht --------
Von: Daniel Atallah <datallah at pidgin.im>
An: David Vaughan <david.vaughan at satemail.com>
Kopie: support at pidgin.im
Betreff: Re: Cannot connect to Google Talk
Datum: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 08:01:21 -0400

On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 4:15 AM, David Vaughan
<david.vaughan at satemail.com> wrote:
> Hi there.
>
>
>
>                 Using Pidgin 2.5.5 I can successfully connect to a Google
> Talk account with a googlemail.com domain.  However, when I use Pidgin to
> connect to a Google Talk account with a hotmail.co.uk domain, the connection
> is rejected as Not Authorized.
>
>
>
> I am using the following settings:
>
>    Username:    myaccount
>
>    Domain:         hotmail.co.uk
>
>    Require SSL/TLS:   not ticked
>
>    Force old SSL:        not ticked
>
>    Allow plain text auth:  not ticked
>
>    Connect port:   5222
>
>    Connect Server:   talk.google.com
>

This is simply not possible.  XMPP (which is what Google Talk is based
on) requires that the domain be configured to be used with the
specified connect server.  Unlike MSN, where you can have an arbitrary
email address of yours as your username, in XMPP the domain means
something in how the protocol works.  As it certainly is not going to
be the case that MSN has configured hotmail.co.uk to be a Google Apps
domain, you cannot have a `@hotmail.co.uk` JID.

-D

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