Comment 12 for bug 557119

freenode forwards your IRC server password to the nickserv. This is a feature of freenode, and is arguably much better than auto-identifying with the nickserv, but sadly other servers don't do this. Just for the sake of the argument though, is this really better in telepathy-idle than in Empathy? My understanding was that telepathy-idle was mainly there for providing the mechanisms and Empathy the interface, but the auto-identify hack makes use of mechanisms that are already present in telepathy-idle (basically /msg).

For the record, XChat also has a separate "nickserv password" field in its configuration, but doesn't let you specify an alternative nick for nickserv like Konversation does. Don't know if that is really necessary anyway.