Yahoo IM connection issues and fix – Adium (Mac)
Recently quite a few people have experienced issues with Yahoo IM. If you’re like me and only use Yahoo for IM and Flickr, I never check my email account to receive any messages or updates, so I was not aware of the login server changes recently.
If you are using Yahoo IM via another client, you will need to change your login server info to:
smud.msg.yahoo.com
I use Adium for my client and you can go into: Preferences>Accounts>
select your account
Click “Edit”
and alter the login server there to: smud.msg.yahoo.com
Done! Works for me.
Thanks to my coworker RJ Owens for pointing this out!
If you have ran an update to Adium after June 21, 2009, to 1.3.5 then going into the same area and leaving the server blank to reset automatically – or you can manually enter:
scs.msg.yahoo.com
should work.
June 29th, 2009 at 11:11 am
That hostname does not even have an address. How is this post rated highly on Google???
June 29th, 2009 at 11:26 am
The above comment may be from a bot, because it doesn’t make any sense relative to my post.
I know my post is speaking about the Login Server for Yahoo IM and Adium.
I’m not clear on what you meant by “The hostname does not even appear to have an address,” or why you are concerned this post came up as a first result with Google.
If this post has incorrect information then please communicate that with me and I’ll correct it. As of 5 minutes ago, it fixed the issue on my coworker’s machine.
Apparently I’m really good at SEO to be a first result for “Yahoo IM fix.”
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July 6th, 2009 at 8:01 am
nslookup on smud.msg.yahoo.com will fail but nslookup on scs.msg.yahoo.com works.