`[servers]`

You can define multiple server sections in the configuration file. Each server section must have a unique name, which is used as the identifier in the [servers.<name>] format.

Eg:


[servers.quakenet]
# ...

💡 For a multiple server example see here

`nickname`

The client's nickname.


# Type: string
# Values: any string
# Default: not set

[servers.<name>]
nickname = ""

`nick_password`

The client's NICKSERV password.


# Type: string
# Values: any string
# Default: not set

[servers.<name>]
nick_password = ""

`nick_password_file`

Read nick_password from the file at the given path.¹ ²


# Type: string
# Values: any string
# Default: not set

[servers.<name>]
nick_password_file = ""

`nick_password_file_first_line_only`

Read nick_password from the first line of nick_password_file only.


# Type: boolean
# Values: true, false
# Default: true

[servers.<name>]
nick_password_file_first_line_only = true

`nick_password_command`

Executes the command with sh (or equivalent) and reads nick_password as the output.


# Type: string
# Values: any string
# Default: not set

[servers.<name>]
nick_password_command = ""

`nick_identify_syntax`

The server's NICKSERV IDENTIFY syntax.


# Type: string
# Values: "nick-password", "password-nick"
# Default: not set

[servers.<name>]
nick_identify_syntax = ""

`alt_nicks`

Alternative nicknames for the client, if the default is taken.


# Type: array of strings
# Values: array of any strings
# Default: not set

[servers.<name>]
alt_nicks = ["Foo", "Bar"]

`username`

The client's username.


# Type: string
# Values: any string
# Default: not set

[servers.<name>]
username = ""

`realname`

The client's real name.


# Type: string
# Values: any string
# Default: not set

[servers.<name>]
realname = ""

`server`

The server to connect to.


# Type: string
# Values: any string
# Default: not set

[servers.<name>]
server = "irc.libera.chat"

`port`

The port to connect on. If you want to use a plain text port like 6667 you MUST also change the use_tls setting.


# Type: integer
# Values: any positive integer
# Default: 6697

[servers.<name>]
port = 6697

`password`

The password to connect to the server.


# Type: string
# Values: any string
# Default: not set

[servers.<name>]
password = ""

`password_file`

Read password from the file at the given path.¹ ²


# Type: string
# Values: any string
# Default: not set

[servers.<name>]
password_file = ""

`password_file_first_line_only`

Read password from the first line of password_file only.


# Type: boolean
# Values: true, false
# Default: true

[servers.<name>]
password_file_first_line_only = true

`password_command`

Executes the command with sh (or equivalent) and reads password as the output.


# Type: string
# Values: any string
# Default: not set

[servers.<name>]
password_command = ""

`channels`

A list of channels to join on connection.


# Type: array of strings
# Values: array of any strings
# Default: not set

[servers.<name>]
channels = ["#foo", "#bar"]

`channel_keys`

A mapping of channel names to keys for join-on-connect.


# Type: map
# Values: map with string key value
# Default: {}

[servers.<name>]
channel_keys = { channel1 = "key1" }

`ping_time`

The amount of inactivity in seconds before the client will ping the server.


# Type: integer
# Values: any positive integer
# Default: 180

[servers.<name>]
ping_time = 180

`ping_timeout`

The amount of time in seconds for a client to reconnect due to no ping response.


# Type: integer
# Values: any positive integer
# Default: 20

[servers.<name>]
ping_timeout = 20

`reconnect_delay`

The amount of time in seconds before attempting to reconnect to the server when disconnected.


# Type: integer
# Values: any positive integer
# Default: 10

[servers.<name>]
reconnect_delay = 10

`should_ghost`

Whether the client should use NickServ GHOST to reclaim its primary nickname if it is in use.


# Type: boolean
# Values: true, false
# Default: false

[servers.<name>]
should_ghost = false

`ghost_sequence`

The command(s) that should be sent to NickServ to recover a nickname.


# Type: array of strings
# Values: array of any strings
# Default: ["REGAIN"]

[servers.<name>]
ghost_sequence = ["REGAIN"]

`umodes`

User modestring to set on connect.


# Type: string
# Values: any string
# Default: not set

[servers.<name>]
umodes = "+RB-x"

`use_tls`

Whether or not to use TLS. Clients will automatically panic if this is enabled without TLS support.


# Type: boolean
# Values: true, false
# Default: true

[servers.<name>]
use_tls = true

`dangerously_accept_invalid_certs`

When true, all certificate validations are skipped.


# Type: boolean
# Values: true, false
# Default: false

[servers.<name>]
dangerously_accept_invalid_certs = false

`root_cert_path`

The path to the root TLS certificate for this server in PEM format.¹ ²


# Type: string
# Values: any string
# Default: not set

[servers.<name>]
root_cert_path = ""

`on_connect`

Commands which are executed once connected.


# Type: array of string
# Values: array of any strings
# Default: not set

[servers.<name>]
on_connect = ["/msg NickServ IDENTIFY foo bar"]

`who_poll_enabled`

Whether or not to WHO polling is enabled.


# Type: boolean
# Values: true, false
# Default: true

[servers.<name>]
who_poll_enabled = true

`who_poll_interval`

WHO poll interval (in seconds) for servers without away-notify. Specifically, the time between individual WHO requests. Will be increased automatically if the server sends a rate-limiting message.


# Type: integer
# Values: 1 .. 3600
# Default: 2

[servers.<name>]
who_poll_interval = 2

`monitor`

A list of nicknames to monitor (if IRCv3 Monitor is supported by the server).

💡 Read more about monitoring users.


# Type: array of string
# Values: array of any strings
# Default: not set

[servers.<name>]
monitor = ["Foo", "Bar"]

`chathistory`

Whether or not to enable IRCv3 Chat History (if it is supported by the server).


# Type: boolean
# Values: true, false
# Default: true

[servers.<name>]
chathistory = true

`sasl.plain`

Plain SASL auth using a username and password

`username`

The account name used for authentication.


# Type: string
# Values: any string
# Default: not set

[servers.<name>.sasl.plain]
username = "username"

`password`

The password associated with the account used for authentication.


# Type: string
# Values: any string
# Default: not set

[servers.<name>.sasl.plain]
password = "password"

`password_file`

Read password from the file at the given path.¹ ²


# Type: string
# Values: any string
# Default: not set

[servers.<name>.sasl.plain]
password_file = ""

`password_file_first_line_only`

Read password from the first line of password_file only.


# Type: boolean
# Values: true, false
# Default: true

[servers.<name>]
password_file_first_line_only = true

`password_command`

Executes the command with sh (or equivalent) and reads password as the output.


# Type: string
# Values: any string
# Default: not set

[servers.<name>.sasl.plain]
password_command = ""

`sasl.external`

External SASL auth uses a PEM encoded X509 certificate. Reference.

`cert`

The path to PEM encoded X509 user certificate for external auth.¹ ²


# Type: string
# Values: any string
# Default: not set

[servers.<name>.sasl.external]
cert = "/path/to/your/certificate.pem"

`key`

The path to PEM encoded PKCS#8 private key for external auth (optional).¹ ²


# Type: string
# Values: any string
# Default: not set

[servers.<name>.sasl.external]
key = "/path/to/your/private_key.pem"

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