[Pidgin] #9467: Unknown Error 1013

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#9467: Unknown Error 1013
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 Reporter:  talonsofthestorm    |        Owner:  marv  
     Type:  defect              |       Status:  new   
Milestone:                      |    Component:  Yahoo!
  Version:  2.5.7               |   Resolution:        
 Keywords:  Yahoo!, Error 1013  |  
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Comment(by darkrain42):

 Replying to [comment:5 sulabh.dev]:
 > It is easy to do that, we can call purple_account_set_username(name)
 from yahoo prpl, where name would be after stripping off "@abc.xyz" (yahoo
 has several domains not just yahoo.com).
 >
 > Yahoo username is the id not the email address. I think we should
 instead just check in our login procedure whether user is providing his id
 or email address, warn the user and disable the account in case email
 address is being provided.[[BR]]

 My understanding is that some Yahoo accounts *do* require the @domain part
 (in particular, things like @sbcglobal.net, etc). However, rekkanoryo
 corrected me last night in devel at cpi. Apparently, sometimes the
 "@yahoo.com" is necessary for a user to log in (his guess is if
 rekkanoryo at yahoo.com and rekkanoryo at yahoo.ca both exist, one is required
 to use the full domain).

 BigBrownChunx suggested perhaps trying to append/strip "@yahoo.com" if the
 first authentication attempt failed. I don't know if that's possible or
 not.

 I pretty strongly feel that, if it's possible for us to detect this, we
 should handle it, '''if at all possible''', automatically.

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