ICQ issues

Tue, 16 Nov 2010 00:17:52 +0100

As you may or may not know, AOL sold ICQ a little while ago. The new owner, DST, is moving the service to their own servers around now. The result is that you (or at least some people) can no longer log into ICQ via the AOL servers.

BitlBee currently defaults to using login.messaging.aol.com for all OSCAR accounts, both AIM and ICQ. This is fixed in bzr. You don't have to upgrade to get ICQ to work again, just tell BitlBee to use login.icq.com again. You can do this using a command like this:

acc icq set server login.icq.com

See help account set for details; if you don't run BitlBee 3.0 yet, or if you have multiple ICQ accounts, this may not work.