If iChat or Messages.app won’t connect to Google Talk
May 6th, 2012Both I and my sister encountered this problem and I figured it’s worth sharing here: the applications seem to silently fail when it decides that the SSL certifications are wrong or don’t match the previous one seen. Simply go to Preferences, uncheck SSL, and reconnect. You should then be given an SSL warning and given the opportunity to accept or reject the new certification. After accepting it you should be connected. Finally, disconnect, enable SSL again, and the reconnect to be back with everything working.
March 18th, 2013 at 9:35 am
Another time, the solution was to kill the
imagentprocess.