Re: [Thunderbird] Switch URL that an IRC account connects to?

Miner <[email protected]> Wed, 9 Nov 2022 11:06:18 -0000 (UTC)
Newsgroups alt.comp.apps.irc
Organization txtcon.i2p
Message-ID <[email protected]>
 Blue-Maned_Hawk wrote:

> I'm using Thunderbird, and i have two separate issues that i
> think would both be solved by figuring out a way to switch the
> URL that an IRC account connects to:  one, the node of a
> network i'm connected to had its certificate expire and is now
> kind of a bitch to connect to (and was somewhat unreliable in
> the first place, so switching to a different node would
> probably be worthwhile anyway); and two, i have an account
> that's connected to the non-encypted URL of an (unrelated) IRC
> network and i want it to connect to the encrypted one instead.
> 
> How do i switch the URL that an IRC account connects to?  I
> don't want to have to create entirely new accounts for the
> separate URLs and lose all the history that my computer has
> saved.

Switch on irssi IRC client to avoid such troubles in future.

> P.S.: how do i stop Thunderbird from turning emotes into emoji
> in IRC?

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Miner