

See rcircAutoAuthentication which includes a bitlbee example. – JohnWiegley Auto-authenticating to BitlBee rcirc Then logout and log back in for it to become active.


Put this text in ~/Library/ LaunchAgents/: If you are using Mac OS X, the simplest way to have BitlBee start “on demand” is using launchd. That way you can run a local bitlbee server without having to worry about inetd. Lisp : bitlbee.el allows you to start and stop the bitlbee process from within Emacs. You can also use the public BitlBee server at im.:6667, or any other public server from the public server list: Running Bitlbee as an Inferior Process Or, in OS X, port install bitlbee Public server That means you can use any InternetRela圜hat client with it!īitlbee is at Or, in Debian, apt-get -u install bitlbee Because of this, there is no global username, there is unique usernames on each server thus you can have multiple jabber accounts on different servers.Bitlbee is a program that acts as an IRC server and lets you connect to any number of IM services (Jabber, ICQ, AIM, MSN, and Yahoo) - just using the IRC protocol to talk there. It works similar to email servers in which anyone can download the Jabber server application and run it in their server to offer Jabber. Unlike these commercial services, Jabber is a decentralized network. Jabber is an open alternative to consumer IM services. Melvin Rivera has created an article, " iChat to MSN Through Jabber", that walks you through the entire process of creating a Jabber account, configuring it for the services you want to use and then configuring iChat and your Address Book to allow you to add all of your buddies across different IM services: The Jabber website lists a number of "pros" including decentrailization, exensibility, security, and stability. The real neat thing is that while most people solve these issues on the client (both Trillian and Adium use the GAIM libraries to achieve this), Jabber tries to solve this on the server through various channel (AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo!) plugins. Jabber's goal is to standardize and improve on instant messaging as well as unify the multitude of formats available from different companies.

What most people don't realise that iChat ships with support for another protocol called Jabber. IChat's biggest downfall is that it's only interoperable with AIM (and ICQ via AIM) and Bonjour.
