Having trouble setting up Pidgin’s Google Talk support for your custom Google Apps Domain? Well here are the simple settings that will get it all running for you.
Your username must be your name that you login with, for example mine is “Andy”. Fill in domain with the domain that the site is registered you, mine is “drawne.com” and fill in your password as you normally would. The advanced settings are the important ones, you have to check mark the option “Force Old (Port 5223) SSL” and change the connect port to “5223“. The connect server should be set to “talk.google.com” and file transfer proxy should be “proxy.jabber.org”. These settings will allow your custom domain gtalk to work with Pidgin.

Written by Andy Feliciotti

Andy Feliciotti is a Web Designer out of College Park, Maryland. He diggs web design and social media, if it's on the internet he has probably seen it. You can check out what Andy finds daily on his twitter.

3 Responses to “Setting up Pidgin for Google Talk on a Custom Domain”

1. 

   Lauren on August 4th, 2009 at 3:05 pm

   Excellent! It worked right away! Thank you so much!

2. 

   Ryan on December 16th, 2009 at 4:32 pm

   Thanks dude! I should have googled before spending hours playing with it.

3. 

   Jamaul on January 25th, 2010 at 2:18 pm

   Thanks!

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