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 See this WikiHow article for a guided step-by-step with pictures: [[ https://www.wikihow.com/Automatically-Join-an-IRC-Channel-in-Pidgin ]]
+===== Thunderbird for GUI clients =====
+In addition to email, Thunderbird also has IRC capabilities. To access, find Chat on the toolbar. It's after Get Messages and Write. Click Chat.
+Unless you've set up Thunderbird as a chat client previously, you'll be looking at a message that say you haven't set up any chat accounts, and a button labeled Get Started. Click on Get Started.
+Follow the set-up wizard.
+  * Select IRC as the network.
+  * Enter your nickname and IRC server hostname (beastie.home.lan if you're following the example.)
+  * You can leave the password blank.
+  * Change the port to 6667 in the Advanced Options.
+  * Remove the check for Use SSL in the Advanced Options.
+Leave the box checked for connect Connect to This Account Now to test.
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