qq in pidgin

[David Woolley]

christian wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm unable to connect to my qq account in pidgin.
> I'm using the latest ppa version 2.7.3 in Ubuntu..
> 
> It sais "connecting" for about 2 minutes, then "disconnected", and 
> "server closed the connection".
> I chose protocol version QQ2008.
> 
> I could not find any successful information about how to connect in pidgin..
> Since QQ is in the home page list <http://www.pidgin.im/> it should 
> work, shouldn't it?
> 
>
Not necessarily.  Instant Messaging service operators change their 
protocols without telling open source developers, and often don't 
encourage third party clients.  Such a change certainly happened to QQ 
earlier this year.  I'm not sure if any Chinese open source developer 
has started working on the problem.

Have a look at the bug tracker.  I would hope there is a bug report for 
this, and it might tell you if someone is working on it.


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