I said it because my friend who has worked for aol support through various buyouts, informed us that that was the future road map. -- Registered Linux User: #480675 Registered Linux Machine: #408606 Linux since June 2005
On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 4:32 PM, dequis <d...@dxzone.com.ar> wrote: > On 28 February 2017 at 18:28, Wade Smart <wadesm...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Right. You can no longer connect to Aim. >> On another note - while AOL is not going away, >> there has been talk internally of doing away with it. > > Uh, this is completely untrue, and I don't know why you would say this. > > First, you can connect to AIM, the message sets a deadline for *march* > 28. So it will work for a month at least. > > Second, and answering the original question, this will be fixed in > pidgin 2.12.0, which will be released soon (next week, ideally) > > We've been in contact with AOL for the last few months to coordinate > an update of some client identifiers to newer values. But AIM isn't > going away. > >> On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 3:02 PM, <marny....@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Hi there, >>> >>> >>> >>> Today, when logging into pidgin I got this message: >>> >>> (12:56:08 PM) AOL System Msg: Hello. Effective 3/28, we will no longer >>> support connections to the AIM network via this method. If you wish to use >>> the free consumer AIM product, we invite you to visit www.aim.com for more >>> information. >>> >>> >>> >>> Does that mean Pidgin will no longer be able to log into AIM? Can you shed >>> any light? >>> >>> Thank you >>> >>> Marny _______________________________________________ Support@pidgin.im mailing list Want to unsubscribe? Use this link: https://pidgin.im/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support
