[Pkg-telepathy-maintainers] Bug#590914: Bug#590914: telepathy-idle: does not identify with NickServ

[Jonny Lamb]

retitle 590914 Add NickServ password support
forward 590914 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16177
severity 590914 wishlist
kthxbye

On Sat, Jul 31, 01:57:36 -0400, Luca Capello wrote:
> ** (telepathy-idle:4438): DEBUG: msg_queue_timeout_cb: called
> ** (telepathy-idle:4438): DEBUG: iface_send_impl: sent "PASS $PASSWORD^M
> " to IOChannel 0x12afae0
> ** (telepathy-idle:4438): DEBUG: msg_queue_timeout_cb: called
> ** (telepathy-idle:4438): DEBUG: iface_send_impl: sent "NICK gismo^M
> " to IOChannel 0x12afae0
> ** (telepathy-idle:4438): DEBUG: msg_queue_timeout_cb: called
> ** (telepathy-idle:4438): DEBUG: iface_send_impl: sent "USER gismo \
>  8 * :Luca Capello^M
> " to IOChannel 0x12afae0
> ** (telepathy-idle:4438): DEBUG: _parse_message: parsing \
>  ":charm.oftc.net 001 gismo :Welcome to the OFTC Internet Relay \
>  Chat Network gismo"

So I don't know much about the IRC protocol other than it's a bit
crap. It turns out that if you send "PASS foo" then after successful
connection, some servers will use this password when the NickServ pops
up. Freenode does this, which is why I was confused when it worked
fine for me. OFTC does not do this, which of course is why you saw it.

So there you go. We've all learned something new. This is actually a
wishlist bug for adding a nickserv-password connection parameter to
idle. There's already a bug about this upstream. Maybe I'll do that
now.

Cheers,

-- 
Jonny Lamb, UK
jonny at debian.org