I've tried a number of clients now including Kopete, Pidgin and Empathy but none of them seem to respect my proxy settings. For example in Pidgin after adding a yahoo account then setting:
Proxy type: HTTP
Host: 127.0.0.1
Port: 8080
(I'm going to be going through Privoxy) in the Proxy tab then clicking Use account proxy for HTTP and HTTPS connections in the Advanced tab.
All I get is
Unable to connect: Server closed the connection
from Pidgin.
Everything works fine if I flush iptables of course, but I obviously don't want to do that.
How can I get at least one of these clients to work with Yahoo IM and through a proxy (local Privoxy)?
EDIT:
I discovered it was actually Dansguardian that was killing Pidgin since the blanket block SSL and blanket block IP address only were on and it seems Pidgin connect via some address like https://66.196.120.xx:5050 each time.
EDIT 2:
This allowance in Dansguardian also fixes the problems with telepathy too and it also now connects and seems to respect the system/environmental proxy settings. Just Kopete then that is broken..
