Joining Invite-Only Channels after Auth

[marcog]

ibid currently joins all channels immediately after connecting. Some channel modes require the bot to be authed with nickserv before being allowed to join the channel, and as a result the bot never successfully joins these channels.

A quick fix is to add the channel to the AJOIN list, but not all IRC services support this feature.

Proposed solution: Remember which channels the bot failed to join. After authenticating with nickserv, attempt to join these failed channels again.

[Michael Gorven (mgorven)]

On Thursday 22 April 2010 16:07:16 marcog wrote:
> Proposed solution: Remember which channels the bot failed to join. After
> authenticating with nickserv, attempt to join these failed channels
> again.

I'd suggest only joining channels after authenticating. On Freenode your
IP/hostname is only masked after authenticating, so if you join channels
before authenticating then that gets leaked.

[Stefano Rivera (stefanor)]

> I'd suggest only joining channels after authenticating.

Sensible. But then that must only happen when nickserv is configured. And there will be networks on which Ibid will fail to understand nickserv, where it will then not join channels.