Original description from Gnome: »Since yesterday authentication to ICQ fails with the error message "<ICQ ID> Network Error". This happens on every computer I own. Maybe ICQ changed something concerning authentication? It worked fine before and nothing was changed on the existing accounts. Reproducible: Simply open Empathy and let it try to connect to ICQ on startup for an existing account. Running on Ubuntu Maverick 10.10.« Additional info: In Pidgin this problem can be solved by disabling SSL functionality so there it's probably related to SSL connection. See Gnome-Bug for Logs: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=634984 Also reported in Launchpad: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/empathy/+bug/676060
See this Pidgin bug: <http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/12886>. It appears to be a server issue.
an update in Ubuntu to libpurple fixed the issue for empathy users.
Closing, as per last comment.
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