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Adium and YAHOO messenger
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Are you using a Yahoo address for an MSN account, or a Yahoo address for a Yahoo account? I'm asking because both are possible, and I don't understand your post.
Assuming the latter, though, that you want to use Yahoo's system, I think what you're doing wrong is including the @yahoo.com part. Your user name should only be your Yahoo User ID -- the part before the "@". And you should make sure that you're setting up a Yahoo account and not an MSN account...
Assuming the latter, though, that you want to use Yahoo's system, I think what you're doing wrong is including the @yahoo.com part. Your user name should only be your Yahoo User ID -- the part before the "@". And you should make sure that you're setting up a Yahoo account and not an MSN account...
mkrishnan said:
I'm referring to the imposibility of logging in on my yahoo account for yahoo messenger...
And yes I've configured Adiud with my name@yahoo.com as my account... and it doesn't work but my msn account name@hotmail.com is working fine and it has my names plus everything after the @ ...
suggestions?
mbopy22 said:I'm referring to the imposibility of logging in on my yahoo account for yahoo messenger...
And yes I've configured Adiud with my name@yahoo.com as my account... and it doesn't work but my msn account name@hotmail.com is working fine and it has my names plus everything after the @ ...
suggestions?
I'm sorry...did you read anything I wrote?
For Yahoo Messenger, you SHOULD NOT include the portion of your e-mail address after the @ sign. Just include your Yahoo user ID. That's the way Yahoo Messenger works. Adium just copies their practice. So the same is true in Adium. You create a new Yahoo account, and you DO NOT include the part after the @ in your account name. So your account should be "name" in your example above for a Yahoo account, but "name@hotmail.com" for an MSN account. That's just the way it is.
mkrishnan said:I'm sorry...did you read anything I wrote?
THANKS!!!! and I did read what you said first... I just pointed that you were right by highlighting my mistake of adding the @yahoo.com...
OK I'll try it tonight when I get home.... since here in my offic. I have W$#%$#@%$#%#indows...
Ahhh, okay, sorry.
It should work without any hassle. You don't need to do anything special like open network ports, to make Yahoo work, so I think that was probably the only issue. If it doesn't work, though, come back, and we can try to figure out why.
Adium rocks!
It should work without any hassle. You don't need to do anything special like open network ports, to make Yahoo work, so I think that was probably the only issue. If it doesn't work, though, come back, and we can try to figure out why.
Adium rocks!
mkrishnan said:
This worked for me when I set up Adium
MSN needed all the address (eg user@hotmail.com)
but Yahoo just needs the actual ID (e.g. user)
You can also then set up different Status for different log ins.
e.g. can be available for MSN and Yahoo, but Away for ICQ.
DJY said:
you can? can you point me in the direction of how to? i haven't seen this anywhere. ill take another look though.
nevermind. helps if you check the dropdown window instead of preferences.
PlaceofDis said:you can? can you point me in the direction of how to? i haven't seen this anywhere. ill take another look though.
nevermind. helps if you check the dropdown window instead of preferences.
I myself only discovered this in one of the newer versions of Adium...
and yes - drop down menu's rather than preferences.
under Status, it initially shows all the options, which I consider to be "Global Status" - which changes all accounts... but then further down that drop down menu should be a list of all the accounts you are logged into. From here you can expand each account (little grey triangle on the right) which then allows you to set each account Status separately!
Very handy!
DJY said:
Actually, what I miss in Adium's recent versions is that there is no longer a "connect all" menu item. If you are offline, and you choose "Available," it does not seem to consistently log in all accounts. So it seems like I still need that old command. Anyone have a good workaround, instead of just having to reconnect each service one at a time?
mkrishnan said:
under Preferences, Accounts... like "tick" all accounts you wish to connect on start up. Then click "Edit" on the other accounts that aren't already automatically starting... and down the bottom of the window is an
"Automatically connect on launch".
mkrishnan said:
It'll log in any account that has a check mark next to it when you go to:
Preferences --> Accounts
This is the list that shows every account for every protocol you have set up Adium for.
MBHockey said:
Mmmm, thanks to you both...I know that, and I have that set, but that's not exactly what I mean. When I start Adium, it logs onto everything just fine. What seems to get screwed up is if, for instance, I wake my notebook and try to go offline because I forgot Adium was online when I went to sleep. Then it logs off some accounts and not others, and there's no way to get them back all on the same page, short of manually reconnecting / disconnecting, or quitting adium and restarting.