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AIM suddenly won't connect using Empathy - "Network error"

Asked by Big Tree

Sometime last week, Empathy stopped being able to connect to my AIM account. I checked to see if Pidgin had the same problem too, and it did. I was able to fix the problem in Pidgin by unchecking "Use SSL" under Accounts>AIM>Edit Account>Advanced

There is no similar setting in Empathy that I can find that fixes this. Any ideas about why this suddenly occurred for both accounts at the same time, and how to fix it?

Note:
Using Empathy 2.28.1.1 and Pidgin 2.6.5 on Karmic 64-bit.

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Sam_ (and-sam) said : 		#1

Seems to be an issue for upstream.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/empathy/+bug/442343

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usera502 (user23058-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#2

I have the same problem on two computers running Karmic 32bit
I thought it was a network problem, but even on another network in another city it wont connect.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) said : 		#3

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