Pidgin with TOR

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2009/12/31 emigrant <fromwindowstolinux at gmail.com>

> hi all,
> i am using the pidgin with ubuntu. and i installed TOR as well.
> i want to set up TOR to one of the yahoo accounts in pidgin.
> so i went to proxy settings and changed the gnome proxy setttings into
> socks5 and host 127.0.0.1 and port 9050.
> but each time i restart pidgin the yahoo account wont' start. i think
> its may be due to yahoo email is opened?
>
> how can i solve the problem?
>
> thank you very much.
>
>
Port 9050 is your web proxy (probably Polipo). Pidgin wants to use a Socks
proxy, so you should set the port to 8118, which is where Tor itself is
listening.
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