After some updates in 8.10 I got it to work. You have to set it up a special way. It works the same way on Jaunty too. I have that now. Here is what you have to do for google apps email accounts.
My email address is [email protected] so here is what I had to set. username michael domain kerputer.com resource gmail.com enter your password Then on the advanced tab choose require ssl leave the connect port to the default 5222 enter talk.google.com in the connect server then it works like a champ. -----Original Message----- From: Sebastien Bacher <[email protected]> Reply-to: Bug 293935 <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: [Bug 293935] Re: pidgin won't connect to gtalk on ubuntu 8.10 Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 20:45:16 -0000 d could you try on jaunty and describe how to trigger the issue? ** Changed in: pidgin (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Low -- pidgin won't connect to gtalk on ubuntu 8.10 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/293935 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
