Pidgin showing "Unable to connect" message with Gmail chat

I am unable to connect to gmail chat through pidgin (2.10.9) on Debian.

But Facebook chat is working fine.

Have tried this:

1. Google support
2. a blog suggestion

Telnet shows

$ telnet gmail.com 5222
Trying 74.125.236.86...
Trying 74.125.236.85...
Trying 2404:6800:4007:801::1015...
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Network is unreachable

Tried pidgin FAQ suggestion

at console

dig +short SRV _xmpp-client._tcp.gmail.com 

gives

5 0 5222 xmpp.l.google.com.
20 0 5222 alt4.xmpp.l.google.com.
20 0 5222 alt2.xmpp.l.google.com.
20 0 5222 alt1.xmpp.l.google.com.
20 0 5222 alt3.xmpp.l.google.com.

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2 Answers

Enabled allow less secure apps option in Google account. This solved the problems with all the standard pidgin settings for the gtalk.

1

The question is rather old, but I still encountered this problem today. So, here's a solution. Use these settings in the advanced tab:

Connection security: "Use old-style SSL"
Connect port: 5223
Connect server: talk.google.com

Particularly setting the Connect server appears to be important.

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