Comment 63 for bug 389322

I believe you are using Ubuntu 8.10...? Upgrade to Ubuntu 9.04 via the update manager.
Using 9.04 Pidgin works fine...if you want to stay with 8.10 I do not know of any fix.

--- On Tue, 6/30/09, Lonnie <email address hidden> wrote:

From: Lonnie <email address hidden>
Subject: [Bug 389322] Re: Yahoo server authentication changed: Pidgin =<2.5.6 will not connect to Yahoo! servers.
To: <email address hidden>
Date: Tuesday, June 30, 2009, 6:10 PM

How can you fix this problem via update manager?

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Yahoo server authentication changed: Pidgin =<2.5.6 will not connect to Yahoo! servers.
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