yahoo kept sending warnings to users that a software update is required to be able to connect starting about September 24, 2003. AFAIK gaim has been fixed upstreams, but even the version in unstable (0.68-r2) has been unable to connect to yahoo as of September 25, 2003. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
Created attachment 18318 [details] Gaim update for Yahoo patch
Created attachment 18319 [details, diff] Yahoo patch for Gaim 0.68
Well patch doesn't work anymore or .69. Gaim people looking into it.
does 0.70 fixes this ?
according to the gaim changelog, gaim 0.70 fixes yahoo support and a few other issues.
fixed with 0.70