{"id":154,"date":"2008-11-18T17:25:10","date_gmt":"2008-11-18T22:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sherylcanter.com\/wordpress\/?p=154"},"modified":"2009-05-13T15:03:03","modified_gmt":"2009-05-13T20:03:03","slug":"configuring-pidgin-behind-firewall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sherylcanter.com\/wordpress\/2008\/11\/configuring-pidgin-behind-firewall\/","title":{"rendered":"Configuring Pidgin from Behind a Firewall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sherylcanter.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/pidgin.jpg\" alt=\"Pidgin\" title=\"Pidgin\" width=\"109\" height=\"185\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/>I use the open source, instant messaging client <a href=\"http:\/\/pidgin.im\/download\/\">Pidgin<\/a> to connect to multiple IM services at once. From my home computer, I had no problem configuring the program to work with AIM, SMS messaging (my cell phone), MSN Messenger, Google Talk, and Yahoo Messenger. But at work I encountered firewall problems with the last three.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how I was finally able to connect (listing only the changes from the default). I&#8217;m running Pidgin 2.5.2. All the setting changes are on the &#8220;Advanced&#8221; page of the account setup dialog. Of course, what worked for me might not work for you, but hopefully it will help. <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h4>MSN Messenger<\/h4>\n<p>I checked &#8220;Use HTTP Method&#8221; and voil\u00e0! With that one small change it connected.<\/p>\n<h4>Google Talk<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Check &#8220;Force old (port 5223) SSL.<\/li>\n<li>In the &#8220;Connect port&#8221; field, enter 443.<\/li>\n<li>In the &#8220;Connect server&#8221; field, enter &#8220;talk.google.com&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It may not have been necessary to enter talk.google.com explicitly, but it doesn&#8217;t hurt and it works now so I don&#8217;t want to touch it!<\/p>\n<h4>Yahoo Messenger<\/h4>\n<p>This one was the big pain &#8211; pain to find, that is. The solution is actually very simple. I just had to change the port. The Pidgin support site lists a bunch of ports that are known to work with Yahoo: 20, 23, 25, 80, 119, 5050, 8001, 8002. But not all the ports may work on your computer. Naturally, the one that worked for me was the last one I tried: Port 23. And now &#8211; finally &#8211; it&#8217;s working.<\/p>\n<p>I had some other miscellaneous difficulties. For a while, I couldn&#8217;t get Google Talk to recognize that I was online. The solution was to delete the account and recreate it. And for a while my buddy icons weren&#8217;t displaying. But after exiting and restarting Pidgin a few times, they now all display.<\/p>\n<p>Hope this helps someone.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I use the open source, instant messaging client Pidgin to connect to multiple IM services at once. From my home computer, I had no problem configuring the program to work with AIM, SMS messaging (my cell phone), MSN Messenger, Google Talk, and Yahoo Messenger. 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