Reconnecting

[Phil Smith III]

Ok, I took a look at this, and now I feel even stoopider. I can’t find any “alt login” checkbox. I see the empty checkbox, but Account/[the Skype account/Modify Account/Advanced shows:



Am I in the wrong cave?

 

From: Eion Robb [mailto:eion at robbmob.com] 
Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2019 4:54 PM
To: Phil Smith III <lists at akphs.com>
Cc: Pidgin Support List <support at pidgin.im>
Subject: Re: Reconnecting

 

Hi Phil,

 

There's an updated intermediate cert for the Hangouts plugin, that the Google servers will sometimes send.  You can download it from source on https://bitbucket.org/EionRobb/purple-hangouts/src/default/ or download the latest version of the .exe installer (assuming you're on windows) which has the intermediate certs bundled.

 

For the Skype plugin, you'll want to follow the flowchart https://github.com/EionRobb/skype4pidgin/tree/master/skypeweb#issues - but the secret sauce is to turn on the "use alternate auth" setting the advanced account settings, which bypasses the whole "Magic T" thing.

 

Cheers,

Eion

 

 

On Fri, 21 Jun 2019 at 04:36, Phil Smith III <lists at akphs.com <mailto:lists at akphs.com> > wrote:

My ISP has occasional hiccups, and/or Google does -- I get certificate prompts periodically (every few days), which of course makes no sense.

In any case, I often go to a machine and find that it has disabled my Hangouts account. I know how to re-enable it, of course, but would prefer not to have to. I see no way to tell Pidgin to retry more times, or for longer; am I just missing it?

Then there's the Skype "Failed to get magic T-value", which I also get randomly...

Any suggestions appreciated.

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