bitlbee

IRC proxy to connect to AIM, ICQ, Jabber and Yahoo

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  1. Package version
    bitlbee-3.6p2
  2. Maintainer
    Tom Doherty

Bitlbee is a proxy which accepts connections from any irc client
and allows you to communicate using following instant messaging
protocols:

- AIM/ICQ (oscar)
- XMPP/Jabber
- MSN Messenger
- Yahoo! Messenger
- Twitter (and API compatible services like identi.ca)

Flavors:
* libpurple - Enables a backend using purple library allowing
to communicate with even more chat networks like Gadu-Gadu,
MySpaceIM, Groupwise, Sametime, SILC etc.
* otr - Enables Off-the-Record (OTR) Messaging to have private
conversations.

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| Running ${PKGSTEM} on OpenBSD
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If moving from a libpurple flavored bitlbee package to an unflavored
one, be aware that "classic" bitlbee cannot support all protocols
supported with purple library. Remove lines for all protocol accounts
unsupported by "classic" bitlbee in users' xml configuration files
in ${DB_DIR}.

  • libpurple
  • otr

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