ichat not working with gmail account irrespective of adding ichat into firewall setup..

Hi,

Is your Mac Firewall On ?

If so in the Advanced Button is the Allow Signed apps Enabled ?

10:06 PM Saturday; September 17, 2011

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Hummm !!,

Let me run thorough this again and see if I missed anything.

You have a Google Mail account

At You Google Accounts Settings you have Enabled Talk and can Chat from the Google Web Site (In Gmail or iGoogle).

You have used the same name and password to set up iChat.

iChat reports in the Server settings tab that talk.google.com is the Server

That SSL is On and that the port was 5223 (you may have tried 443 as well).

The Mac Firewall is ON

In the Advanced Button the Allow Signed Apps is Enabled and iChat is in the List.

You do not appear to have answered if the router is set up for iChat.

Any internet connection is made up of 65535 "ports" as they are called. (think of them like TV channels)

The first 1024 ports are open in most devices which allows Web Browsing, Mail and things like FTP to work without any further set up.

Some routers need you to make adjustments if the apps you use want to use ports above 1024

iChat wants to use ports above this number.

For Jabber 5220, 5222, 5223 (All on the TCP Protocol)

For AIM 5190 (Both UDP and TCP some s Text chat and Login some is File Sending)

To Send an A/V Invite needs port 5678 on UDP

Any A/V Chat needs to be able to access ports 16393-16402 although it will only use one of these)

Screen Sharing needs a random port.

Because of the Random port it is better that you use UPnP, if you router has it, to open the ports.

9:00 PM Sunday; September 18, 2011

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Just wanted to share with you I had exactly the same issue. Thanks to Ralph for all the helpful suggestions, but eventually I just deleted the Gmail Account in iChat and re-added it. Started up without any problem. Hopefully this may help you as well.

Glad to hear you found a solution.

9:49 PM Saturday; October 22, 2011

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My solution is same with Kraegm, I deleted my previous account than I created again, much more easy before trying other solutions.

My problem happened after upgrading to lin, i think in new ichat account preferences there are two options "jabber" and "google talk", it was jabber in Snow Leopard, now you must select "Google Talk" when you are registering new account in ichat.

Hi,

Deleting an "Account"/Screen Name/ID in iChat is a valid solution to this.

iChat 3 brought Jabber to iChat and if you had a Google ID you had to set it up as Jabber then change the server name. Google doesn't follow the server naming Protocol that other Jabber servers do.

As Google does not follow the naming Protocol for the server Apple added the Google option in iChat 4 (Leopard)

That continued in Snow Leopard (iChat 5).

Lion offers the addition of using your Yahoo ID.

iChat 3 Start Up Screen Jabber option

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8:17 PM Tuesday; January 17, 2012

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I just want to push in here and say I'm having the exact same problems. I've tried everything suggested above - including removing my gmail account from iChat and then adding it again. (Several times.) Nothing works!

What is doubly weird is that it was working fine a couple of days ago and has suddenly stopped working. I haven't changed any settings or downloaded any updates. I am mystified (and annoyed).

Hi.,

If it is intermittent then I would check if you are also logged in to Google web page wise and what the default period for stying logged in is if you don't specifically Log out.

Lets say you have PC Buddy and fire up your web Browser and chat to your PC Buddy using a Login to Google and their Web page chat on Google Mail or iGoogle.

If iChat was logged in then the web Log in will take Priority (it will get all the Text Messages and Invites) The login sort of jumps in front as it were.

If you don't specifically Log out there is a default period until it Lapses of about 2 weeks unless you alter it.

Other Jabber apps that can login to a Google Name will also do this (Such as AdiumX or ProteusX or Psi)

10:32 PM Sunday; February 5, 2012

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