Pidgin and Gtalk

I came across Pidgin couple of months ago. I set it up for use with MSN, Yahoo, GTalk, and SameTime. Worked fine for a month or so.

Then one fine day, it stopped connecting to my Google account. Searched a lot of places and finally found this useful info.

On the account screen, select the following..
Protocol: XMPP
Username: Your Google ID
Domain: gmail.com
Password: Your google password.

Next, click on the advanced tab and change the following..
Require SSL/TLS: Checked
Force old(port 5223) SSL: Checked
Connect Port: 443

Everything works great now.

Reference: MANAST.COM