This is a small HOWTO to explain the Set-Up for Yahoo messenger to work together with "Your freedom".

Install & Start Yahoo Messenger, you usually find it here.

Select -> Login -> Preferences

Click on "Connection" and enter values as shown in the screenshot below:

Instead of using the HTTP proxy, you may use SOCKS5 as well. But you cannot use "localhost" or "127.0.0.1" as the SOCKS host -- use a different representation instead. We've been told that "127.0.1" will do nicely, and it means the same thing (courtesy of fehmiyucer).