*** Original post on bio 1899 by Steven De Groote <stevendegroote AT gmail.com> at 2013-03-16 14:05:00 UTC *** As I'm an op on an IRC channel, I want to auth myself with Q, the QuakeNet bot. This appears to be impossible with Instantbird. Basically, there are two alternatives to do so, both don't work: /auth username password Instantbird replied with "auth is not a supported command". Secondly, as Quakenet suggests, one can try: /msg Q@CServe.quakenet.org AUTH username password This however fails as well. Instantbird falsely notes that 'Q@CServe.quakenet.org' is not online. It is possible to: /msg Q AUTH username password But Q does not accept this for security reasons. I think the /auth support is a feature request, but failing to message 'Q@CServe.quakenet.org' is a bug.

*** Original post on bio 1899 at 2013-03-16 14:10:48 UTC *** /msg sends a msg to a person, it should be used as "/msg <nick> <message>" (as /help msg says). msg is doing what it is designed to do, this is not a big. It sounds like you want to send a raw command, that would be: /quote Q@CServe.quakenet.org AUTH username password /auth is not a supported command (and should not be added), the feature request here, I think, is to make our auto-identify work with Quakenet.

*** Original post on bio 1899 at 2013-03-26 12:04:01 UTC *** Confirming and retitling based on comment 1. If this is wrong, please let me know.

*** Original post on bio 1899 by Steven De Groote <stevendegroote AT gmail.com> at 2013-03-26 19:02:27 UTC *** I wish to add that it's eventually possible to auth yourself with Q, as follows: First do: /msg Q@CServe.quakenet.org AUTH username password This falsely gives "'Q@CServe.quakenet.org' is not online.", as mentioned before. This however creates a seperate chat with Q@CServe.quakenet.org. Performing the same /msg in the chatbox with "Q@CServe.quakenet.org" does get you authed. It's of course not obvious, and certainly only a workaround for this issue.

*** Original post on bio 1899 by Steven De Groote <stevendegroote AT gmail.com> at 2013-03-26 19:05:57 UTC *** @clokep: Here's what quakenet says on how to do auth without /auth http://www.quakenet.org/help/q/how-to-register-an-account-with-q

*** Original post on bio 1899 at 2013-03-26 19:21:42 UTC *** (In reply to comment #3) > I wish to add that it's eventually possible to auth yourself with Q, as > follows: > > First do: > /msg Q@CServe.quakenet.org AUTH username password > This falsely gives "'Q@CServe.quakenet.org' is not online.", as mentioned > before. As I wrote above, you need to do /quote instead of /msg and you won't need to do the below. > This however creates a seperate chat with Q@CServe.quakenet.org. Performing the > same /msg in the chatbox with "Q@CServe.quakenet.org" does get you authed. > > It's of course not obvious, and certainly only a workaround for this issue. What I'm proposing is that you do nothing on connection and Instantbird just sends your password using the proper commands. Voila, easy.

I think we just need to add a clause to http://dxr.mozilla.org/comm-central/source/chat/protocols/irc/ircServices.jsm#114 that tries AUTH after NICKSERV.