

I’ve already committed a fix: we now only strip the suffix if the suffix starts with so that etc. For these users, stripping off the suffix makes sign-in not work. Instead of a plain old “jdoe” username, these customers’ Yahoo! IDs are their entire address. SBC offered, and AT&T still offers, an internet connection with Yahoo! services bundled, including Yahoo! Messenger. SBC was a US telephone company, which became AT&T back in 2005. This was a good plan, except for those who use Yahoo! AT&T.
#ADIUM CANNOT CONNECT TO YAHOO CODE#
The code that Evan committed removes any email-address suffix-in other words, if there’s an Adium will remove that and anything after it before trying to log in. This didn’t work for other Yahoo! suffixes, such as Thus, Evan intended to make Adium delete all Yahoo! suffixes, not just the US one. Generalize our removal to account for this.īefore that change, we looked for specifically, and removed it if present.

Yahoo accounts shouldn’t include the regardless of what it is (e.g. This is because Yahoo! expects only the jdoe part (the username) signing in with the whole email address will result in an unknown-username error.īack on the 11th of February, Evan committed this change: When you enter a Yahoo! email address (such as into the username field in Adium 1.2 and later, Adium strips off the part before trying to sign in with it. We’ve discovered the problem this post is to tell you what we did wrong and what we’re doing about it. You are currently browsing the archives for the bugs category.Ī number of you have reported being unable to sign into Yahoo! using Adium 1.2.2.
