Pidgin does not connect

[HermanAA]

On Fri, 2009-06-19 at 11:51 +0300, Alexandra Zaharia wrote:
> 
> Yes, the problem is from Yahoo. My gtalk, AIM and MSN accounts are
> fine.
> 
> A workaround for the Yahoo protocol is to edit the account, go to the
> 'advanced' tab and replace the pager server with
> 
> cs101.msg.mud.yahoo.com
> 
> This worked for me i.e. after I did this I could connect normally.

THANKS.
It worked for me too.
Thanks to all who were responding. What would Linux be without you/us?

Herman in Philippines.