How to: Fix Adium can’t connect to Yahoo Messenger

Posted by Cyber Valdez in Bug Fixes, How-tos, Macintosh on 06 19th, 2009 | 21 responses

Help: Adium can’t connect or is unable to connect to Yahoo! even after restarting the application or the whole OS.

__UPDATE__(6/24/09), Important!

Adium’s latest update includes a fix for this bug so please do download the update and after installation please make sure your connection’s login server is back to the default: scs.msg.yahoo.com, and ports: 5050, that should fix it.

Here’s a quick fix to this problem

  1. Disconnect(or Cancel) if your account is currently connecting.
  2. Change your connection’s login server from scs.msg.yahoo.com to 66.163.181.106, leave port 5050 unchanged. (You can do this by going to File -> (Select your Yahoo! Account) -> Edit Account, you can also do this in the File -> Preferences -> Accounts -> Edit
  3. Try Connecting Again.

That’s It! The steps above should be done to _each_ of your yahoo accounts.

__UPDATE__: This solution works for Pidgin as well so you may want to share this with your pidgin buddies who are experiencing the same problem.

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21 Responses to “Did this solution worked for you?”

  1. Worked perfectly – been trying to find a solution for 2 days! Thanks. :)

    2. Daniel on June 20th, 2009 at 12:38 AM

  2. Thank you – tried multiple other fixes found online and this was the only one that seemed to do the trick.

    3. allyson on June 20th, 2009 at 1:38 AM

  3. Yes, this worked for me! Finally a work around until libpurple can be updated to use yahoo’s new protocol.

    4. Timothy on June 20th, 2009 at 9:57 AM

  4. alternatively you can just add the following to your hosts file:

    66.163.181.106 scs.msg.yahoo.com

    I would give details on how to do that, but I believe that if you are not familiar w/ the hosts file, it would be safer to just change the setting in the adium account preferences.

    5. james on June 20th, 2009 at 11:25 AM

  5. worked for me

    thanks a lot!!!!

    cheers….

    6. oliver on June 20th, 2009 at 9:16 PM

  6. @james editting your hosts file could possibly lead to some problems in the future _say_ Yahoo! decided to change the ip address used in their protocol.

    Just an update: as pointed out, this solution works for pidgin as well.

    7. Cyber Valdez on June 21st, 2009 at 5:13 AM

  7. Thanks, you saved me hassles from having to use Yahoo Messenger instead of Adium. Its been two days I keep on waiting for it to connect and now you save my time. Thank you. :)

    8. surfnux on June 21st, 2009 at 9:26 AM

  8. thanks.. it works!

    9. axn on June 21st, 2009 at 8:05 PM

  9. thank you ever so much for this! finally! a solution!

    10. ging on June 21st, 2009 at 10:30 PM

  10. This solution did NOT work for me.. :(

    11. Laurie on June 23rd, 2009 at 9:49 AM

  11. I had it working, and now Adium will not connect to Yahoo! Messenger at all.

    What should I do next??

    12. Wolfling64 on June 23rd, 2009 at 1:11 PM

  12. Guys, the new update of adium fixed the issue so just revert back to the original address which is: scs.msg.yahoo.com and port: 5050

    13. Cyber Valdez on June 24th, 2009 at 4:39 AM

  13. This didnt work for me at all – With the server at scs.msg.yahoo.com, it is eternally stuck on “connecting”, when it’s changed to the number I get some error “connecting to the socket”. I have the newest update, are there any other solutions to try?

    14. Michael on July 2nd, 2009 at 3:02 PM

  14. @Michael If you have multiple accounts, you may have to set them each individually and pointed back to the original address: scs.msg.yahoo.com and port: 5050

    15. Cyber Valdez on July 3rd, 2009 at 7:24 AM

  15. tried everything, still cant get it to work..

    weird thing is, it works on my macbookpro..

    16. loko on July 4th, 2009 at 7:30 PM

  16. It worked! That was driving me nuts. Thanks!

    17. Lisa on July 22nd, 2009 at 12:49 AM

  17. It didn’t work… I may have a more serious problem. I am using an older version of Adium, so I can use the Xblaze plugin. When I try to connect to Xfire and Yahoo, the status stays at “Connecting” forever. When I put the IP ^^ in instead of the default Yahoo address, it keeps “…retrying in 5, 4, 3…” I am having no success.

    18. Morgan on August 5th, 2009 at 1:15 AM

  18. These solutions does’nt work for me..
    I still get
    “Could not establish a connection with the server:
    Access denied: HTTP proxy server forbids port 5050 tunneling”

    19. edy on August 10th, 2009 at 1:36 AM

  19. I figured out work around, if you’re using ADIUM… just add your YAHOO buddy using MSN…. as complete email address (for e.g. if your buddy screen name is hotgal4u… you would add it as hotgal4u@yahoo.com).

    What is looks like, Yahoo Messenger servers is blocking all 3rd party connections but then it’s on IM application doesn’t work either. Something is definitely screwed up.

    But apparently, good news for us that MSN and YIM are working with others service well (just like Google Talk & AIM). So, there you have it – hope this helps everyone!

    20. MG on December 11th, 2009 at 1:16 AM

  20. I figured out work around, if you’re using ADIUM… just add your YAHOO buddy using MSN…. as complete/exact email address (for e.g. if your buddy screen name is hotgal4u… you would add it as hotgal4u@yahoo.com) – or @ymail.com or @rocketmail.com whichever the situation/email address it might be.

    What is looks like, Yahoo Messenger servers is blocking all 3rd party connections but then it’s _own_ IM application doesn’t work either. Something is definitely screwed up.

    But apparently, good news for us that MSN and YIM are working with others service well (just like Google Talk & AIM). So, there you have it – hope this helps everyone!

    21. MG on December 11th, 2009 at 1:18 AM

  21. thanks.. it works!

    22. dant on February 8th, 2010 at 10:26 PM

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