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I think the Camel IRC component should allow for identifying a user w/the servers nickserv (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC/Instructions#Register_your_nickname.2C_identify.2C_and_enforce). Attached is a patch to allow that to happen for the IrcConsumer. The same action could be applied to the IrcProducer if the IrcConfiguration was available in that class.
Part of what I did was also to put a Thread.sleep() before the identification. I did this because when connecting to some servers (ex irc.anonops.com:6697) I found I needed to pause for a few moments while the server completed the connection and displayed a bunch of banner info. Having an additional param to pause before joining channels may be worth implementing as well, however I tried not to do too much customization since I'm not that familiar with the component code.