Authenticating with undernet.org's X service

[Kourosh P.]

Thank you for clarifying that.
Appreciate your help.

Kourosh

On Mon., Nov. 21, 2022, 12:37 Eion Robb, <eion at robbmob.com> wrote:

> Hi again,
>
> Glad you got it going :)
>
> The "enable keepalives" option is from a different plugin that lets you
> turn off keepalives that are normally forced on in different protocol
> plugins, to deal with unusual or problematic irc and XMPP servers. You
> probably wouldnt normally need it :)
>
> Cheers,
> Eion
>
> On Tue, 22 Nov 2022, 06:12 Kourosh P., <kourosh at pourdanandeh.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Eion,
>>
>> Thank you for your reply. Yes I did figure that out, I am on openSUSE and
>> got the plugin installed.
>> I saw that you had an option called "Enable Keepalives", which plugin
>> does that belong to?  I wonder if the settings you suggested will activate
>> if there is a netsplit or server reconnect.
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Kourosh
>>
>>
>> On Mon., Nov. 21, 2022, 01:56 Eion Robb, <eion at robbmob.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Kourosh,
>>>
>>> You might find that there's a purple-plugin-pack package in the repo of
>>> whichever distro you're using.  Otherwise, I believe extracting the tar.gz
>>> and running ./configure && make && make install is needed.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Eion
>>>
>>> On Mon, 21 Nov 2022 at 10:23, Kourosh P. <kourosh at pourdanandeh.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Thank you Eion for your reply,
>>>> How do I "install" irc-helper on a Linux based system? Do I extract the
>>>> *tar.gz file and put it somewhere?
>>>>
>>>> Thank you,
>>>> Kourosh
>>>>
>>>> On Sun., Nov. 20, 2022, 14:50 Eion Robb, <eion at robbmob.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi there,
>>>>>
>>>>> After playing around with a few options, I've found the best way to
>>>>> auth with undernet is to use the irc-helper plugin (in the
>>>>> purple-plugin-pack) which enables extra options in the 'Advanced' tab on
>>>>> the account.  After setting SASL details and Auth/nick details, it logs in
>>>>> and authenticates without needing to do any buddy pounces.  My account
>>>>> settings ended up looking like
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Hope that helps!
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>> Eion
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, 21 Nov 2022 at 05:58, Kourosh P. <kourosh at pourdanandeh.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Dear Pidgin support,
>>>>>> Thank you for an amazing app.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I am a new user with Pidgin. For the life of me I have been trying to
>>>>>> figure out how to use the undernet.org's X service with the Buddy
>>>>>> Pounce in
>>>>>> Pidgin. Following the instructions on "How do I authenticate/identify
>>>>>> with
>>>>>> a buddy pounce..." every time I connect to the server, X asks "To use
>>>>>> LOGIN, you must /msg X at channels.undernet.org".
>>>>>>
>>>>>> How do I incorporate that in the Buddy Pounce settings as the Pidgin
>>>>>> website indicates not to use "/msg ...." ? I have even tried to add
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> Buddy name as X at channels.undernet.org instead of X but no success.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Would appreciate your guidance.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thank you in advance,
>>>>>> Kourosh
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