irssi tries to join #python before sending the identify message

Question

I am starting off with irssi here and have a small setup trying to connect to a few channels on freenode. I have the following in my chatnets directive in my .irssi/config

Freenode = {
  type = "IRC";
  autosendcmd = "/^msg NickServ IDENTIFY <password>; wait 2000";
};

and the following is the channels directive

channels = (
  { name = "#vim"; chatnet = "Freenode"; autojoin = "Yes"; },
  { name = "#jquery"; chatnet = "Freenode"; autojoin = "Yes"; },
  { name = "#python"; chatnet = "Freenode"; autojoin = "Yes"; },
  { name = "#coffeescript"; chatnet = "Freenode"; autojoin = "Yes"; },
  { name = "#clojure"; chatnet = "Freenode"; autojoin = "Yes"; }
);

Now, when I open irssi, I expect to see all the above channels open and ready. All channels work that way except for #python which gets redirected to #python-unregistered and asks me to identify myself. I'd like irssi to wait until the identification is finished before it joins the channels. I hoped that the wait 2000 would do this, but apparently not.

Am I missing something? I am a beginner with irssi so have little idea. Thank you for any help.

score 22 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 03 '12 at 05:52

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Set your nick password as the server password. Freenode's IRCd accepts the server password and will attempt to identify with it.

answered Jan 03 '12 at 05:52

Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams

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Awesome. I saw the docs and added a new server(freenode2) and saw how it was setting the password in the config and added that password to my config, as a `password=` directive. It works now. Thank you Ignacio :) – sharat87 Jan 03 '12 at 06:04
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I guess this only works if your nick and the nick you want to register to are the same. Unfortunately for me they differ. The wait trick seems to work, but only with *6000* instead of *2000*. – scai Jul 20 '13 at 07:30
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@scai: You can send it as `user:pass` :-) – Chris Down Jan 13 '15 at 13:25

score 6 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 17 '12 at 16:18

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The commands are (example: irc.freenode.net):

Remove current setting first

/server list
/server remove irc.freenode.net

Add server

/SERVER ADD -auto -network Freenode irc.freenode.net 6667 your_nick_password

Now add your channel(s)

/channel add -auto #fedora Freenode

Save your changes

/save

answered Jun 17 '12 at 16:18

Bjarte Brandt

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Instead of re-adding the server you can also add `password = "foobar";` in your `.irssi/config` file. – nuala Apr 25 '15 at 15:48
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@nuala, while true, the IRSSI ideology is to avoid manual editing of the configuration file. So, readding server is a proper thing to do. – 0andriy Jan 04 '21 at 20:43

irssi tries to join #python before sending the identify message

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