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Here is how you remove that annoying ^M character in the file. This happens if you Copy paste edit something in windows and open it in unix (my case ubuntu)  :%s/{Ctrl+V}{Ctrl+M}//{Enter} where {Ctrl+V }{Ctrl+M} stands for, you must press Ctrl+V and then Ctrl+M Posted via email from What I See

I was working from home today and using Ubuntu, but was not able configure my pidgin to Google Apps. Then I found the below link from google. http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=49147 Update: But Also make sure in the Advance Tab Port is 5223 Connect Server : talk.google.com