As yahoo retires yahoo messenger versions 6.0 and 7.5, many yahoo messaging users using third party YM clients like Pidgin experienced problem connecting to yahoo messaging servers. Some users found a workaround to temporarily fixed the problem by using the following yahoo messaging server IPs as the pager server.

66.163.181.170
66.163.181.171
66.163.181.172
66.163.181.173
66.163.181.174
66.163.181.175
66.163.181.176

Though the above pager servers worked, it doesn’t guarantee a long term fix of the problem. Hence, on June 20, version 2.5.7 of Pidgin was released to address the issue and fixed the problem.

You can download the Pidgin version 2.5.7 on this url http://nchc.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/pidgin/pidgin-2.5.7.exe

Pidgin 2.5.7 Changelog:

• Yahoo Protocol 16 support, including new HTTPS login method; this should fix a number of login problems that have recently cropped up. (Sulabh Mahajan, Mike “Maiku” Ruprecht)
• Only display the AIM “Unable to Retrieve Buddy List” message once per connection. (Rob Taft)
• Blocking MSN users not on your buddy list no longer disconnects you.
• When performing operations on MSN, assume users are on the MSN/Passport network if we don’t get network ID’s for them.

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Kudos to the Pidgin developers and team.