setting account for other gmail service

[Bill MacAllister]

--On Tuesday, July 20, 2010 02:51:40 AM +0200 otrov <dejan.org at gmail.com> wrote:

> hi,
>
> I use thebat.net mail service (which is service on gmail) and can't
> get chat working with pidgin, thou it works fine in browser i.e.
>
> I think the problem is that User needs to be some_name at thebat.net
> and Domain gmail, but Pidgin doesn't parse this very well and I
> might be wrong of course
>
> Thanks in advance

For my gmail use:

  Protocol: xmpp
  Username: your-username
  Domain: gmail.com

In your case you might have to replace gmail.com with thebat.net or both
might work, but you don't want the domain as part of the username.

Bill

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Bill MacAllister
Infrastructure Delivery Group, Stanford University