Need help using Thunderbird chat program with mibbit.net being the
server I connect to.
reddit / irc

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SteveM2020 · 2020-11-22 17:36

I setup an account on mibbit irc. I would like to use Thunderbird to
connect to it. All my attempts to add this account to Thunderbird chat
have failed. Is the Thunderbird chat limited to using freenode.net? Am
I missing something?

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sim642 · 2020-11-22 19:55

Mibbit isn't an IRC network itself but a web-based client to connect
to IRC networks.

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SteveM2020 · 2020-11-23 04:47

Thanks. I installed a mibbit chat widget on my website. In the bottom
of the window it says:

+++ irc.uk.mibbit.net set the channel to mode +n
+++ irc.uk.mibbit.net set the channel to mode +t

Then it looks like it set by username to a channel /#test

I assumed I was on an IRC network, but if I'm not, then it makes sense
why I can't connect to it.

Guess it's back to the drawing board.

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sim642 · 2020-11-23 06:03

It looks like Mibbit has their own IRC network running too actually
(irc.uk.mibbit.net). I suppose you could connect to that from anything
else but I don't know why you'd want to be there instead of actually
active networks.

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SteveM2020 · 2020-11-23 09:09

I found some sites today that said freenode.net blocks mibbit.

Using Thunderbird, the only irc server I have been able to connect to
is freenode.net. Using Mibbit, the only irc server I've been able to
connect to is irc.uk.mibbit.net. I'd like to be able to connect them
both to the same irc server. But I'm not having much luck.

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[deleted] · 2020-11-24 18:18

Not sure it's of use to you but have used Mibbit for many years now to
connect to the Rizon network.

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SteveM2020 · 2020-11-24 18:33

Thank you