Cannot connect to yahoo

[Arvind Chandra]

I am using pidgin version 2.6.6-2.el5.4
It is running on RHEL 5 - 32 bit

I was on version 2.5.x and it was running fine. Of late I started noticing that change of status was not propagating to yahoo friends. So decided to upgrade and now I can not connect.

I use environment proxy

pager server is scsa.msg.yahoo.com
pager port 5050

file transfer server is filetransfer.msg.yahoo.com
file transfer port is 80

-Arvind