Google does indeed offer Google Talk for non-Google mail addresses. However, Google Talk accounts of this kind have actually JabberIDs that look like "[email protected]" where xxxxxxxxxxxx is some ugly number like "dkh498gah894h9348t". I thought that it might be possible to connect to such an account using Pidgin by entering the real JID. So I created a GoogleTalk account using a non-Google mail address (for testing) and I eventually figured out what its JID was, but I didn't manage to log in to that JID using Pidgin.
If you need help with finding out your real JabberID, you can contact me on Jabber/XMPP, but I'm afraid this will not be useful for you. (My JabberID is the same as my E-Mail address.) -------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Von: Daniel Atallah <[email protected]> An: David Vaughan <[email protected]> Kopie: [email protected] Betreff: Re: Cannot connect to Google Talk Datum: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 08:01:21 -0400 On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 4:15 AM, David Vaughan <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi there. > > > > Using Pidgin 2.5.5 I can successfully connect to a Google > Talk account with a googlemail.com domain. However, when I use Pidgin to > connect to a Google Talk account with a hotmail.co.uk domain, the connection > is rejected as Not Authorized. > > > > I am using the following settings: > > Username: myaccount > > Domain: hotmail.co.uk > > Require SSL/TLS: not ticked > > Force old SSL: not ticked > > Allow plain text auth: not ticked > > Connect port: 5222 > > Connect Server: talk.google.com > This is simply not possible. XMPP (which is what Google Talk is based on) requires that the domain be configured to be used with the specified connect server. Unlike MSN, where you can have an arbitrary email address of yours as your username, in XMPP the domain means something in how the protocol works. As it certainly is not going to be the case that MSN has configured hotmail.co.uk to be a Google Apps domain, you cannot have a `[email protected]` JID. -D _______________________________________________ Support mailing list [email protected] http://pidgin.im/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support _______________________________________________ Support mailing list [email protected] http://pidgin.im/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support
