Pidgin with TOR

[Freemor]

On Thu, 31 Dec 2009 07:10:21 -0500
Flamsmark <flamsmark at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.

Um... 9050 is TOR and SOCKS5. 8118 is Privoxy and HTTP.

see:
http://wiki.noreply.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/TorifyHOWTO/InstantMessaging
and/or
http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/quickstart.html

His problem is more likely due to Yahoo changing their protocol and
breaking Pidgin yet again. It happens quite regularly. One of the many
reasons I stopped using Yahoo.

Regards,
Freemor


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