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

By: dant

dant — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:26:36 +0000

thanks.. it works!

By: MG

MG — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:18:29 +0000

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!

By: MG

MG — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:16:07 +0000

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!

By: edy

edy — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 17:36:46 +0000

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”

By: Morgan

Morgan — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 17:15:00 +0000

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.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 16:49:14 +0000

It worked! That was driving me nuts. Thanks!

By: loko

loko — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 11:30:22 +0000

tried everything, still cant get it to work..

weird thing is, it works on my macbookpro..

By: Cyber Valdez

Cyber Valdez — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:24:52 +0000

@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

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 07:02:46 +0000

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?

By: Cyber Valdez

Cyber Valdez — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:39:22 +0000

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