I am now able to connect to Freenode using Circe with SASL
authentication.
I received help from wasamasa in #emacs-circe and staff in #freenode to
debug an issue with Circe's SASL authentication. A fix was pushed to
the Circe repository.
This logging variable was helpful during Circe debugging:
`(setq irc-debug-log t)`
Here is the contents of my Circe configuration that is working for me:
```
(setq circe-network-options
'(("Freenode"
:tls t
:nick "bone-baboon"
:user "bone-baboon"
:realname "bone-baboon"
:sasl-username "bone-baboon"
:sasl-password "<password>")))
```
The sasl-username and sasl-password are the username and password used
when registering an account with Freenode.
Bone Baboon writes:
> Thank you
>
> Tobias Geerinckx-Rice writes:
>> Unless you can obtain a new IP that isn't part of these ‘high-risk
>> ranges’, or connect through a bouncer elsewhere, you *need* to set
>> up SASL. How that's done differs per client.
>
>> Simply installing some packages won't cut it. You need to actually
>> register your nickname and configure your client to log you in using
>> SASL.
>
> I have registered an account with Freenode. I will try to setup an
> Emacs IRC client with SASL or CertFP for that account.
>
> Searching melpa.org and emacs-tw/awesome-emacs on GitHub for irc I find:
>
> - ERC (included with Emacs)
> -- on #erc I was told
> --- ERC does not currently support SASL but it is being worked on
> --- ERC will support CertFP when Emacs 28 is released
>
> - rcirc (included with Emacs)
> -- no matches when searching for SASL or CertFP in the rcirc info
> document
>
>> I briefly looked for rcirc how-tos but found none. The manual[0]
>> doesn't mention SASL at all.
>
> - Riece
> -- Riece's documentation does not mention of SASL or CertFP
>
> - Circe
> -- Circe's readme shows support for SASL and CertFP
>
> I asked on #freenode if CertFP would work as an alternative to SASL and was
> told that it would.
>
> I am going to try to get Circe connecting to Freenode using SASL or CertFP.
>
> What Emacs IRC client's are people able to successfully connect to Freenode
> with using SASL or CertFP?
>
> Are there other Emacs IRC clients that I should look into?
