Re: [Gaim-devel] Add Account Wizard (was: Making it easier to add GTalk acc...)

[Ethan B. <ebl...@cs...>]

Jason Spiro spake unto us the following wisdom:
>     * Side note: I just renamed my .gaim directory and installed and tried
>       2.0.0beta3 for a minute or two and still could not manage to get
>       it to connect to Google Talk by filling in different settings I
>       thought I remembered correctly in the Basic tab of the account
>       settings dialog. I typed in jas...@gm... and tried the
>       server gmail.com and talk.google.com and neither one worked. So it
>       seems to not be that easy for me to connect even with the new DNS
>       SRV query feature, and perhaps others will have the same problem.
>       I think a New Account Wizard would be simpler.

You should have tried a Screen name of jasonspiro4 and a Server of
gmail.com.  You would have to change nothing else (if I am remembering
correctly) to get connected to Google Talk.

I don't know how other Google-hosted mail domains are set up, but I
strongly suspect that if the proper SRV records are in place, they
would work the same way.

Ethan

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