iChat (Lion) does not connect to aim and icq

Hi,

You do know that AIM and ICQ have parted company ?

Is iChat allowed though your Mac Firewall ?
Have you got DNS servers listed in System Preferences > Network > (Connection type) > Advanced Button > DNS tab (Try a Public one like 8.8.8.8 or 8.8.4.4)

Is iChat allowed though your router ?

10:03 PM Friday; August 19, 2011

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 G4/1GhzDual MDD (Leopard 10.5.8)
 MacBookPro 2Gb( 10.6.8)
 Mac OS X (10.6.8),
"Limit the Logs to the Bits above Binary Images."  No, Seriously

Hi,

I would start with the DNS thing

Then the Firewall.

If the AIM login was still an Issue I would go to iChat > Preferences > Accounts > Server settings and change the port to 443 (this will be below 1024 threshold in the router).

(If you are using Port Forwarding to allow the ports the Computer may not have the IP the ports are pointing to)

10:20 PM Friday; August 19, 2011

Please, if posting Logs, do not post any Log info after the line "Binary Images for iChat"

 G4/1GhzDual MDD (Leopard 10.5.8)
 MacBookPro 2Gb( 10.6.8)
 Mac OS X (10.6.8),
"Limit the Logs to the Bits above Binary Images."  No, Seriously

Hi,

Lets check where the password will work.

Can you Login Here ?

Starting top right you will get redirected to an AOL Login page. (well either of the two Sign In Links)

If the name and password work you will be redirected back tyo the Link page but now it will show your Name

What is shown is either a Display Name if you set one up with AIM or your actual Screen Name.

If you can't login here you will have to do the Password Recovery bits.

Use the second stage of this (older) Users Tip to check the Keychain.

8:29 PM Friday; October 7, 2011

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 MacBookPro 2Gb( 10.6.8)
 Mac OS X (10.6.8),
"Limit the Logs to the Bits above Binary Images."  No, Seriously

Henning77,

I had this same problem. I was able to fix it by turning off SSL for AIM.

That also worked for me. Go to iChat preferences > "your AIM account" > Server Settings and uncheck Use SSL. AIM will immediately go online.

The fact that the OP is posting to this forum means DNS is working. Unless they are reaching this site via IP but I highly doubt that.

Hi,

I have heard of this with the 10.7.2 Update.

EZ Jim who posts regularly in the iSight area also found with the 10.7.2 update he had to Disable SSL.

8:08 PM Thursday; October 13, 2011

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 MacBookPro 2Gb( 10.6.8)
 Mac OS X (10.6.8),
"Limit the Logs to the Bits above Binary Images."  No, Seriously

Hi,

IF I have no DNS server in my Network Settings I find I can get to places like Apple or Google (large organisations).

This thread started before the 10.7.2 Update came out and DNS issues would have seemed to be the first port of call.

However since the 10.7.2 update there also seems to be an issue either with the way Lion handles SSL Logins or a problem with the AIM SSL server.

8:29 PM Thursday; October 13, 2011

Please, if posting Logs, do not post any Log info after the line "Binary Images for iChat"

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 MacBookPro 2Gb( 10.6.8)
 Mac OS X (10.6.8),
"Limit the Logs to the Bits above Binary Images."  No, Seriously

Turning off SSL didn't work for me. I can't connect to the AOL servers with or without SSL (there are two different servers: login.oscar.aol.com on port 5190 with no SSL and api.oscar.aol.com on port 443 with SSL).

Has anybody noticed that iChat is throwing a Exception writing metadata: CoreData could not fulfill a fault for '0x7f845529d840 <x-coredata://368B377C-D6B9-4986-B448-94B93DCD3D7C/ABCDPhoneNumber/p2924>' error in the system.log file?

This looks to me like a bug in iChat 6.0.1 (935) which I installed with my 10.7.2 upgrade last night. It was working fine until the new version of iChat was installed.

By the way, I can connect with no problems using Adium.

Hi,

Check your Address Book.

Make sure the My Card (Head and Shoulders icon) is your Data.

Check the Phone Number listed.

9:41 PM Thursday; October 13, 2011

Please, if posting Logs, do not post any Log info after the line "Binary Images for iChat"

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 MacBookPro 2Gb( 10.6.8)
 Mac OS X (10.6.8),
"Limit the Logs to the Bits above Binary Images."  No, Seriously

The issue is with the server iChat is trying to use for authentication. Do the following:

• Go to menu iChat->Preferences
• Choose Accounts icon
• Select "Server Settings" tab
• change the Server to "slogin.oscar.aol.com"

That fixed it for me. BTW, I did not figure this out, I found this solution posted by hifoo45 on MacRumors forum. (http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1200859)

----> Amazing!!!
[Go to iChat preferences > "your AIM account" > Server Settings and uncheck Use SSL. AIM will immediately go online.]

The trick that worked for me was to quit ichat and go into Activity Monitor and find the process imagent and quit it.