Empathy not connecting with AIM

I didn't know where to post this, so I'll ask here .
Lately, I've been having Network Errors with Empathy on my AIM account.  I remember bumping into a similar problem in Pidgin where, due to updated servers, AIM couldn't communicate with SSL encryption.  I don't see this option in Empathy, though, so I'm not sure how to fix it.  The rest of my accounts are fine, too.
Here's the advanced settings for my AIM account:
server: login.messaging.aol.com
port: 5190

Maelos wrote:
Unfortunatly Empathy does not have that option, this doesnt seem to be Arch specific as Ive encountered it on other distros. From what I have read elsewhere its related to libpurple somehow. Havent found a fix yet, but Ill update this thread when I do.
***EDIT***
Did a little more digging, found this link, scrolling down gets you this information:
I can't connect to my AIM/ICQ account anymore
You need to change an advanced configuration option. Open a terminal and type the following commands to get the name of your AIM/ICQ account:
$ mc-tool list | grep icq
$ mc-tool list | grep aim
Then change the option using:
$ mc-tool update <aim account name> bool:use-clientlogin=0
Did this for both AIM and ICQ, logging in fine now.
Thanks this worked for me :-D

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