2009/12/31 emigrant <fromwindowstoli...@gmail.com>
> hi all, > i am using the pidgin with ubuntu. and i installed TOR as well. > i want to set up TOR to one of the yahoo accounts in pidgin. > so i went to proxy settings and changed the gnome proxy setttings into > socks5 and host 127.0.0.1 and port 9050. > but each time i restart pidgin the yahoo account wont' start. i think > its may be due to yahoo email is opened? > > how can i solve the problem? > > thank you very much. > > Port 9050 is your web proxy (probably Polipo). Pidgin wants to use a Socks proxy, so you should set the port to 8118, which is where Tor itself is listening.
