Comments on: HOWTO: Connect to Google Talk with Bitlbee

By: incith

incith — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 00:00:07 +0000

Here’s how to do it in newer releases of BitlBee:

account add you@gmail.com password
account list
— look for: ###. jabber, you@gmail.com

Where ### will be 0 or 1 or 2 depending on the # of the account you just added. Then do the following:

account set #/server talk.google.com
account set #/port 5223
account set #/ssl true

account on #

Should connect fine.

By: Kristoffer

Kristoffer — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 14:33:06 +0000

Thanks!!!!
Worked fine!!

By: John

John — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 11:44:32 +0000

Yeah, I think you need gnutls compiled in on Gentoo. For reference, here’s how I currently have it built…

[ebuild R ] net-im/bitlbee-1.2 USE=”gnutls jabber msn oscar ssl yahoo -debug -ipv6 -nss -test -xinetd” 0 kB

Works for me. :)

By: Chrelad

Chrelad — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:19:18 +0000

The fix for the aforementioned problem (for Gentoo at least) is located here:

http://bugs.bitlbee.org/bitlbee/ticket/379#comment:4

By: Chrelad

Chrelad — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:16:20 +0000

Same problem… Gentoo box:

auto_connect =`true’
auto_reconnect = `true’
password is empty
username = `XXXXXXX@gmail.com’
port = `5223′
priority = `0′
resource = `Home’
resource_select = `priority’
server = `talk.google.com’
ssl = `true’
tls = `try’
xmlconsole = `false’

Results in:

jabber – Logging in: Connecting
jabber – Logging in: Connected to server, logging in
jabber – Couldn’t log in: Short write() to server
jabber – Logging in: Signing off..

I’ve tried both port numbers, with and without TLS and I’m not even sure what the xmlconsole does, but I tried that too… No change…

Version: 1.2
USE flags: jabber oscar ssl yahoo msn xinetd

Thanks for any help :)

By: BoD

BoD — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 10:25:12 +0000

Ok. After re emerging (I’m on gentoo) bitlbee, with the “gnutls” useflag, it works fine!

By: BoD

BoD — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 07:41:28 +0000

Same here, google talk doesn’t want to connect with this error:
Couldn’t log in: Short write() to server

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 19:34:27 +0000

I think jabber changed somthing, I am, on gentoo and archlinux, it’s ther same, “jabber – Couldn’t log in: Short write() to server” error on both..

as for my setup thats easy :
account add jabber email@gmail.com ********** talk.google.com:5223:ssl

By: Bitlbee | The Diary

Bitlbee | The Diary — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 21:25:19 +0000

[...] an error with the unhelpful “Connection Closed” message. A bit of searching came across a post that had some helpful wisdom on it: account add jabber username@gmail.com mypasswd [...]

By: Simon de Hartog

Simon de Hartog — Sat, 31 May 2008 22:22:47 +0000

I’ve been using Bitlbee for quite some time with much success. However, I’ve never been able to use my GoogleTalk account with it yet. Version 1.0.3 simply segfaulted when connecting to Google Talk. Just installed v1.2 and followed numerous howto’s (including this one) but I just keep getting:
00:20 jabber – Logging in: Connecting
00:20 jabber – Logging in: Connected to server, logging in
00:20 jabber – Logging in: Converting stream to TLS
00:20 jabber – Logging in: Connected to server, logging in
00:20 jabber – Couldn’t log in: Short write() to server
00:20 jabber – Logging in: Signing off..
00:20 jabber – Logging in: Reconnecting in 300 seconds..

Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.