Didn’t realize that a fetchmail implementation I was using was actually *not* using SSL for a month. I had installed security/ca_root_nss but FreeBSD doesn’t assume that you want to use the certificates in this package. I don’t understand it, but whatever.
So, add this to your fetchmailrc to actually use the certificate authorities in there and really do SSL to your gmail account:
sslcertfile /usr/local/share/certs/ca-root-nss.crt
I discovered recently that net-im/finch can indeed join password protected IRC channels even though the channel add dialogue box doesn’t support it.
Add an IRC chat room that requires a password to your buddy list.
Exit out of finch and edit ~/.purple/blist.xml
Find the chat room you just added:
<chat proto=’prpl-irc’ account=’you@irc.server.net’>
<component name=’channel’>#supersekritircchannel</component>
<setting name=’gnt-autojoin’ type=’bool’>1</setting>
</chat>
Simply add the password line after the channel name component:
<component name=’password’>supersekritpass</component>
Restart finch and you will now be able to auto-join the IRC channel.
Note that the password for this IRC channel is now in PLAIN TEXT in a file in your home directory. So, ensure that you are doing this somewhere trustworthy.