@e-smile: You need to use the Kopete from KDE 4.3 or later, since Yahoo changed their protocol. A backport of the fix is extremely unlikely.

@johnlvs2run: KDE version?

Weird. It's connecting pretty reliably for me...

bcooksley wrote:@e-smile: You need to use the Kopete from KDE 4.3 or later, since Yahoo changed their protocol. A backport of the fix is extremely unlikely.

@johnlvs2run: KDE version?

Yes. I am using KDE 3.5.9 with Sabayon 3.5, but also tried the version with Sabayon 4.2 which didn't connect to yahoo at all. I have downloaded Sabayon 5.0 but apparently it has quite a few bugs so I have not tried it yet. I don't care for yahoo but that is where my friends chat, and I have not figured out how to use Jabber. If I could figure Jabber out and introduce my friends to it then I would rather move to there and not use yahoo any more.

Jabber works virtually the same as Yahoo, an easy client to use ( for non Linux users ) is Google Talk.

I believe due to changes in Yahoo's protocol, KDE 4.3 or later is required to connect to Yahoo with Kopete.

i just figured out why my yahoo account wouldn't connect!

for 'yahoo username' you have to enter only your user name xxxxx not xxxxx@yahoo.com

didn't figure this one out for ages!

i think there should be an error message telling you that your login information was not correct. i didn't get any error, i thought the problem would be the protocol or a connection error.

please make kopete show error messages telling us what went wrong

Can you please report a bug about this as it should give an error if the server authentication failed.

done
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=223665

Using either myname@yahoo.com, or just myname doesn't work. The account icon flashes for about a second and then just says offline. I'm using KDE 4.3.

Does anyone have other suggestions?

double check for typos... sounds stupid but might help
good luck

Kopete is still giving me problems, this time with MSN, so I installed Pidgin.

Blasphemy works too...