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Using Thunderbird's Chat to connect to IRC servers requiring authentication
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There are two ways to authenticate on IRC server:

  1. Identify nick with NickServ;
  2. Using the PASS command in the IRC protocol (not supported in the Thunderbird UI).

If your server or bouncer requires [2], set the following preferences as string values:

messenger.account.accountN.options.serverPassword
messenger.account.accountN.options.username
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