Unable to connect to BOS server: Connection refused.

[Angel]

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Hi Elon,
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FIXED!!!!!  OMG!!  YAY!!!
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Thank you, THANK you, THANK YOU!

Now, how to get my "Buddies" back and configured 
with alert pounces and such. Fortunately, I wrote 
it all down the last time something like this happened!
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Have a great weekend!!!

Angel
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At 10:39 PM 3/29/2019, you wrote:
>(please include support@ in any replies)
>To switch to the new protocol you'll need to 
>edit the account and change from ICQ to ICQ (WIM).
>If you're still seeing the BOS error, then 
>you're using the old protocol stillÂ
>Cheers,
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>On Sat, 30 Mar 2019 at 12:14, Angel 
><<mailto:cmmcangel at gmail.com>cmmcangel at gmail.com> wrote:
>Hi Elon,
>I did get the message last year and did move to 
>the new one. It was working fine until I closed ICQ yesterday.
>Thank you for the link.  Here's what I did:
>Closed Pidgin completely
>Downloaded these two files to folder on desktop
><https://eion.robbmob.com/libicyque.dll>libicyque.dll
><https://eion.robbmob.com/libjson-glib-1.0.dll>libjson-glib-1.0.dll
>Opened Windows Explorer
>Draged libicyque.dll into C:\Program Files (x86)\Pidgin\plugins\ folder
>Draged libjson-glib-1.0.dll  to C:\Program Files 
>(x86)\Pidgin\ (not plugins!) folder
>Restarted Pidgin
>No joy. Still getting "unable to connect to BOS server. Connection refused"
>Starting "Panic Mode"!
>
>
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>At 02:08 PM 3/29/2019, you wrote:
>>Hi there,
>>You probably got a message from the ICQ servers 
>>near the end of last year that said they were 
>>shutting down the old service and that you'd 
>>need to move to their new one?  There's a new 
>>plugin that connects to the new protocol and 
>>replaces the existing one in Pidgin:
>><https://github.com/EionRobb/icyque>https://github.com/EionRobb/icyque
>>Cheers,
>>Eion
>
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>      On Sat, 30 Mar 2019 at 08:47, Angel 
> <<mailto:cmmcangel at gmail.com>cmmcangel at gmail.com> wrote:
>Hi!
>Looked at all the old stuff, and this has 
>happened before, but nothing new came up. Is there a new upgrade for this??
>Pidgin was working fine until today when the ICQ 
>program, resident and running on the task bar, 
>got closed accidentally. Ok, I closed it. Forgot 
>it had to be on. So, I get the error message: 
>Unable to connect to BOS server: Connection refused.
>Tried *everything* (reloading Pidgin, deleting 
>Pidgin, reinstalling newest version, 
>re-launching ICQ, playing with the settings in 
>Pidgin, deleting account and making new -w/same settings) and ... Nada.
>Under Modify Account, the server listed is 
><http://login.icq.com>login.icq.com,  I do not 
>see it in the list of SSL servers:
><http://api.icq.net>api.icq.net,
><http://api.login.icq.net>api.login.icq.net
><http://api.oscar.aol.com>api.oscar.aol.com
><http://api.screenname.aol.com>api.screenname.aol.com
><http://bos.oscar.aol.com>bos.oscar.aol.com
><http://edit.yahoo.com>edit.yahoo.com
><http://www.yahoo.com/>www.yahoo.com
>and couldn't find info online to add it for myself.
>So.   H E L P !!
>Thank you, one and all.
>Angel
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