pidgin 2.10.6 on Ubuntu 12.10: cannot connect behind a HTTP Proxy to gmail account

[Daniel Atallah]

On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 9:22 AM, Marcello Magaldi <magowiz at gmail.com> wrote:
> thanks Daniel, I read the answer you pointed me but the solution is not
> doable in my case since I'm at work and I cannot configure network
> infrastructure, I can only modify my machine configuration . Is there a way
> I can fix this issue only modifying mine machine configuration ?

The FAQ entry that I pointed at has a workaround listed (to set the
Connect Server field in the Advanced account settings to
"talk.google.com" ).

-D