Using the context menu of the server to reconnect seems to work ok. I don't know what you mean by "a new server". The server is not in the default xchat settings, so I added a new server and then added one server to it, configuring ssl and the port as per the wiki page.
~/.xchat2/servlist_.conf has v=0.16 N=Canonical I=poolie R=Martin Pool P=********* J=#canonical E=UTF-8 (Unicode) F=46 D=0 S=irc.canonical.com/**** the first asterisks is the password and the second is the decimal port number. -- xchat reconnects on the wrong port number https://launchpad.net/bugs/97253 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs