Support Digest, Vol 39, Issue 29

[Tom Turvey]

On Thu, 2010-11-18 at 15:48 -0500, support-request at pidgin.im wrote:
> Subject: Re: [2.7.3]Can't Connect to ICQ...


> Use pidgin 2.7.5 with clientLogin and without SSL and it will/should
> work.
> 
> If you absolutely cannot upgrade to 2.7.5 (because you are using an
> Ubuntu version for which our PPA has not yet been updated for example)
> I believe
> changing the server for the account to one of login.icq.com or
> login.icq.net (I forget which) may work with clientLogin and without
> SSL.
> 
>     -Etan

login.icq.com works fine - thankyou Etan - lifesaver!!