<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><!DOCTYPE article  PUBLIC '-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN'  'http://www.docbook.org/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd'><article><articleinfo><title>BitlBee</title><revhistory><revision><revnumber>3</revnumber><date>2010-09-01 14:40:12</date><authorinitials>djweezy</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>2</revnumber><date>2010-02-24 06:40:20</date><authorinitials>adsl-75-21-51-59.dsl.ksc2mo.sbcglobal.net</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>1</revnumber><date>2010-02-24 05:10:57</date><authorinitials>adsl-75-21-51-59.dsl.ksc2mo.sbcglobal.net</authorinitials><revremark>This tutorial will show you how I set up irssi to work with bitlbee on Blinkenshell.</revremark></revision></revhistory></articleinfo><para>This tutorial assumes you are already in irssi lurking in #blinkenshell. First you need to add the bitlbee server. </para><itemizedlist><listitem override="none"><para>/server add -network bitlbee 127.0.0.1 7001 </para></listitem></itemizedlist><para>If you want to automatically connect to bitlbee when you start irssi put the -auto flag in after add. </para><itemizedlist><listitem override="none"><para>/server add -auto -network bitlbee 127.0.0.1 7001 </para></listitem></itemizedlist><para>Next we need to add bitlbee as a network. </para><itemizedlist><listitem override="none"><para>/network add bitlbee </para></listitem></itemizedlist><para>At this point you are ready to to connect to bitlbee. </para><itemizedlist><listitem override="none"><para>/connect bitlbee </para></listitem></itemizedlist><para>After you have connected switch to the bitlbee control channel. Commands interacting with bitlbee do not start with /. Anything you start with a / will be directed at irssi. To get started you need to register in bitlbee. </para><itemizedlist><listitem override="none"><para>register password_you_want_to_use </para></listitem></itemizedlist><para>After you register you can tell irssi to send your password automatically upon connection to bitlbee. </para><itemizedlist><listitem override="none"><para>/network add -autosendcmd &quot;identify bitlbee_password&quot; bitlbee </para></listitem></itemizedlist><para>The help menu is full of useful information. To access it just type help. </para><itemizedlist><listitem override="none"><para>help </para></listitem></itemizedlist><para>The quickstart introduction will help you get started actually using bitlbee and help you connect to your im accounts. </para><itemizedlist><listitem override="none"><para>help quickstart </para></listitem></itemizedlist><para>One last thing if you're like me you use the MSN network to talk with some of your friends. MSN has an annoying habbit of dropping out on you. I recommend you set bitlbee to automatically reconnect. </para><itemizedlist><listitem override="none"><para>set auto_reconnect true </para></listitem></itemizedlist><!--rule (<hr>) is not applicable to DocBook--><para> <ulink url="http://ipv6.blinkenshell.org/wiki/BitlBee/wiki/CategoryHowto#">CategoryHowto</ulink> <ulink url="http://ipv6.blinkenshell.org/wiki/BitlBee/wiki/CategoryHowto#">CategoryHowto</ulink> </para></article>