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Date:      Mon, 29 Sep 2003 06:08:13 -0400
From:      Andrew J Caines <A.J.Caines@halplant.com>
To:        FreeBSD ports <FreeBSD-Ports@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: Patch to update to net/gaim to 0.70 with working Yahoo!
Message-ID:  <20030929100813.GJ35537@hal9000.halplant.com>
In-Reply-To: <20030929093037.GA65884@watt.intra.caraldi.com>
References:  <20030929090716.GH35537@hal9000.halplant.com> <20030929093037.GA65884@watt.intra.caraldi.com>

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Jean-Baptiste,

> Thanks for  your patch, indeed Yahoo  accounts fail since last  week.

Yahoo! changed the protocol, purportedly to combat spam, and released
updated (but still out-of-date - they're for 4.5!) ymessenger clients[1]
just at the last moment, but didn't do anything to help the other IM
clients, AFAIK.

The gaim folks[2] picked up some info from the people who make Trillian
and it's possible to log on and message, but there may be problems logging
off - I haven't tried it.

> I hope this will get committed soon.

There needs to be much more testing, since 0.70 has some non-trivial
changes[3].

> Keep up the good work

Thanks, but what I did was the easy bit: hang out on #gaim on FreeNode and
do a trivial version update to the port. Credit goes to the port
maintainer.


[1] http://messenger.yahoo.com/messenger/download/unix.html#freebsd
[2] http://gaim.sourceforge.net/
[3] http://gaim.sourceforge.net/ChangeLog

-Andrew-
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