[Pidgin] #8299: yahoo is broken??

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#8299: yahoo is broken??
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 Reporter:  loveserena  |           Owner:  lschiere
     Type:  defect      |          Status:  pending 
Milestone:              |       Component:  Yahoo!  
  Version:  2.5.4       |      Resolution:          
 Keywords:              |   Launchpad_bug:          
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Comment(by dave1g):

 I am getting this in the debug log when attempting to connect to yahoo

 (18:40:54) account: Connecting to account dave15g
 (18:40:54) idle: Setting dave15g idle 60354 seconds
 (18:40:54) connection: Connecting. gc = 03F3BFA8
 (18:40:54) dnsquery: Performing DNS lookup for scs.msg.yahoo.com
 (18:40:54) dnsquery: IP resolved for scs.msg.yahoo.com
 (18:40:54) proxy: Attempting connection to 66.163.181.168
 (18:40:54) proxy: Connecting to scs.msg.yahoo.com:5050 with no proxy
 (18:40:54) proxy: Connection in progress
 (18:40:55) proxy: Connecting to scs.msg.yahoo.com:5050.
 (18:40:55) proxy: Error connecting to scs.msg.yahoo.com:5050 (Connection
 refused.).
 (18:40:55) proxy: Connection attempt failed: Connection refused.
 (18:40:55) account: Disconnecting account 00E93228
 (18:40:55) connection: Disconnecting connection 03F3BFA8

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Ticket URL: <http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/8299#comment:5>
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