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1<chapter id="commands">
2        <title>Bitlbee commands</title>
3
4        <command-list/>
5
6        <bitlbee-command name="account">
7                <short-description>IM-account list maintenance</short-description>
8                <syntax>account &lt;action&gt; [&lt;arguments&gt;]</syntax>
9
10                <description>
11
12                        <para>
13                                Available actions: add, del, list, on, off and set. See <emphasis>help account &lt;action&gt;</emphasis> for more information.
14                        </para>
15
16                </description>
17
18                <bitlbee-command name="add">
19                        <syntax>account add &lt;protocol&gt; &lt;username&gt; &lt;password&gt;</syntax>
20
21                        <description>
22                                <para>
23                                        Adds an account on the given server with the specified protocol, username and password to the account list. Supported protocols right now are: Jabber, MSN, OSCAR (AIM/ICQ) and Yahoo. For more information about adding an account, see <emphasis>help account add &lt;protocol&gt;</emphasis>.
24                                </para>
25                        </description>
26                       
27                        <bitlbee-command name="jabber">
28                                <syntax>account add jabber &lt;handle@server.tld&gt; &lt;password&gt;</syntax>
29
30                                <description>
31                                        <para>
32                                                The handle should be a full handle, including the domain name. You can specify a servername if necessary. Normally BitlBee doesn't need this though, since it's able to find out the server by doing DNS SRV lookups.
33                                        </para>
34
35                                        <para>
36                                                In previous versions it was also possible to specify port numbers and/or SSL in the server tag. This is deprecated and should now be done using the <emphasis>account set</emphasis> command. This also applies to specifying a resource in the handle (like <emphasis>wilmer@bitlbee.org/work</emphasis>).
37                                        </para>
38                                </description>
39                        </bitlbee-command>
40
41                        <bitlbee-command name="msn">
42                                <syntax>account add msn &lt;handle@server.tld&gt; &lt;password&gt;</syntax>
43
44                                <description>
45                                        <para>
46                                                For MSN connections there are no special arguments.
47                                        </para>
48                                </description>
49                        </bitlbee-command>
50                       
51                        <bitlbee-command name="oscar">
52                                <syntax>account add oscar &lt;handle&gt; &lt;password&gt;</syntax>
53
54                                <description>
55                                        <para>
56                                                OSCAR is the protocol used to connect to AIM and/or ICQ. The servers will automatically detect if you're using a numeric or non-numeric username so there's no need to tell which network you want to connect to.
57                                        </para>
58                                </description>
59
60                                <ircexample>
61                                        <ircline nick="wilmer">account add oscar 72696705 hobbelmeeuw</ircline>
62                                        <ircline nick="root">Account successfully added</ircline>
63                                </ircexample>
64                        </bitlbee-command>
65
66                        <bitlbee-command name="yahoo">
67                                <syntax>account add yahoo &lt;handle&gt; &lt;password&gt;</syntax>
68
69                                <description>
70                                        <para>
71                                                For Yahoo! connections there are no special arguments.
72                                        </para>
73                                </description>
74                        </bitlbee-command>
75
76                </bitlbee-command>
77
78                <bitlbee-command name="del">
79                        <syntax>account del &lt;account id&gt;</syntax>
80
81                        <description>
82                                <para>
83                                        This commands deletes an account from your account list. You should signoff the account before deleting it.
84                                </para>
85
86
87                                <para>
88                                        The account ID can be a number (see <emphasis>account list</emphasis>), the protocol name or (part of) the screenname, as long as it matches only one connection.
89                                </para>
90                        </description>
91                </bitlbee-command>
92
93                <bitlbee-command name="on">
94                        <syntax>account on [&lt;account id&gt;]</syntax>
95
96                        <description>
97                                <para>
98                                        This command will try to log into the specified account. If no account is specified, BitlBee will log into all the accounts that have the auto_connect flag set.
99                                </para>
100
101                                <para>
102                                        The account ID can be a number (see <emphasis>account list</emphasis>), the protocol name or (part of) the screenname, as long as it matches only one connection.
103                                </para>
104                        </description>
105
106                </bitlbee-command>
107
108                <bitlbee-command name="off">
109                        <syntax>account off [&lt;account id&gt;]</syntax>
110
111                        <description>
112                                <para>
113                                        This command disconnects the connection for the specified account. If no account is specified, BitlBee will deactivate all active accounts and cancel all pending reconnects.
114                                </para>
115
116                                <para>
117                                        The account ID can be a number (see <emphasis>account list</emphasis>), the protocol name or (part of) the screenname, as long as it matches only one connection.
118                                </para>
119                        </description>
120                </bitlbee-command>
121
122                <bitlbee-command name="list">
123                        <syntax>account list</syntax>
124
125                        <description>
126                                <para>
127                                        This command gives you a list of all the accounts known by BitlBee, including the numbers you'll need for most account commands.
128                                </para>
129                        </description>
130                </bitlbee-command>
131
132                <bitlbee-command name="set">
133                        <syntax>account set &lt;account id&gt;</syntax>
134                        <syntax>account set &lt;account id&gt;/&lt;setting&gt;</syntax>
135                        <syntax>account set &lt;account id&gt;/&lt;setting&gt; &lt;value&gt;</syntax>
136                        <syntax>account set -del &lt;account id&gt;/&lt;setting&gt;</syntax>
137
138                        <description>
139                                <para>
140                                        This account can be used to change various settings for IM accounts. For all protocols, this command can be used to change the handle or the password BitlBee uses to log in and if it should be logged in automatically. Some protocols have additional settings. You can see the settings available for a connection by typing <emphasis>account set &lt;account id&gt;</emphasis>.
141                                </para>
142                               
143                                <para>
144                                        For more infomation about a setting, see <emphasis>help set &lt;setting&gt;</emphasis>. For details about the syntax of this command, see <emphasis>help set</emphasis>.
145                                </para>
146                               
147                                <para>
148                                        The account ID can be a number (see <emphasis>account list</emphasis>), the protocol name or (part of) the screenname, as long as it matches only one connection.
149                                </para>
150                        </description>
151                </bitlbee-command>
152        </bitlbee-command>
153
154        <bitlbee-command name="add">
155                <short-description>Add a buddy to your contact list</short-description>
156                <syntax>add &lt;connection&gt; &lt;handle&gt; [&lt;nick&gt;]</syntax>
157                <syntax>add -tmp &lt;connection&gt; &lt;handle&gt; [&lt;nick&gt;]</syntax>
158
159                <description>
160                        <para>
161                                Adds the given buddy at the specified connection to your buddy list. The account ID can be a number (see <emphasis>account list</emphasis>), the protocol name or (part of) the screenname, as long as it matches only one connection.
162                        </para>
163
164                        <para>
165                                If you want, you can also tell BitlBee what nick to give the new contact. The -tmp option adds the buddy to the internal BitlBee structures only, not to the real contact list (like done by <emphasis>set handle_unknown add</emphasis>). This allows you to talk to people who are not in your contact list. This normally won't show you any presence notifications.
166                        </para>
167                </description>
168
169                <ircexample>
170                        <ircline nick="ctrlsoft">add 3 gryp@jabber.org grijp</ircline>
171                        <ircaction nick="grijp" hostmask="gryp@jabber.org">has joined <emphasis>&amp;bitlbee</emphasis></ircaction>
172                </ircexample>
173        </bitlbee-command>
174
175        <bitlbee-command name="info">
176                <short-description>Request user information</short-description>
177                <syntax>info &lt;connection&gt; &lt;handle&gt;</syntax>
178                <syntax>info &lt;nick&gt;</syntax>
179
180                <description>
181                        <para>
182                                Requests IM-network-specific information about the specified user. The amount of information you'll get differs per protocol. For some protocols (ATM Yahoo! and MSN) it'll give you an URL which you can visit with a normal web browser to get the information.
183                        </para>
184                </description>
185
186                <ircexample>
187                        <ircline nick="ctrlsoft">info 0 72696705</ircline>
188                        <ircline nick="root">User info - UIN: 72696705   Nick: Lintux   First/Last name: Wilmer van der Gaast   E-mail: lintux@lintux.cx</ircline>
189                </ircexample>
190
191        </bitlbee-command>
192
193        <bitlbee-command name="remove">
194                <short-description>Remove a buddy from your contact list</short-description>
195                <syntax>remove &lt;nick&gt;</syntax>
196
197                <description>
198                        <para>
199                                Removes the specified nick from your buddy list.
200                        </para>
201                </description>
202
203                <ircexample>
204                        <ircline nick="ctrlsoft">remove gryp</ircline>
205                        <ircaction nick="gryp" hostmask="gryp@jabber.jabber.org">has quit <emphasis>[Leaving...]</emphasis></ircaction>
206                </ircexample>
207
208        </bitlbee-command>
209
210        <bitlbee-command name="block">
211                <short-description>Block someone</short-description>
212                <syntax>block &lt;nick&gt;</syntax>
213                <syntax>block &lt;connection&gt; &lt;handle&gt;</syntax>
214                <syntax>block &lt;connection&gt;</syntax>
215
216                <description>
217                        <para>
218                                Puts the specified user on your ignore list. Either specify the user's nick when you have him/her in your contact list or a connection number and a user handle.
219                        </para>
220                       
221                        <para>
222                                When called with only a connection specification as an argument, the command displays the current block list for that connection.
223                        </para>
224                </description>
225        </bitlbee-command>
226
227        <bitlbee-command name="allow">
228                <short-description>Unblock someone</short-description>
229                <syntax>allow &lt;nick&gt;</syntax>
230                <syntax>allow &lt;connection&gt; &lt;handle&gt;</syntax>
231
232                <description>
233                        <para>
234                                Reverse of block. Unignores the specified user or user handle on specified connection.
235                        </para>
236                       
237                        <para>
238                                When called with only a connection specification as an argument, the command displays the current allow list for that connection.
239                        </para>
240                </description>
241        </bitlbee-command>
242       
243        <bitlbee-command name="otr">
244                <short-description>Off-the-Record encryption control</short-description>
245                <syntax>otr &lt;subcommand&gt; [&lt;arguments&gt;]</syntax>
246
247                <description>
248
249                        <para>
250                                Available subcommands: connect, disconnect, smp, trust, info, keygen, and forget. See <emphasis>help otr &lt;subcommand&gt;</emphasis> for more information.
251                        </para>
252
253                </description>
254               
255                <bitlbee-command name="connect">
256                        <syntax>otr connect &lt;nick&gt;</syntax>
257                       
258                        <description>
259                       
260                                <para>
261                                        Attempts to establish an encrypted connection with the specified user by sending a magic string.
262                                </para>
263                               
264                        </description>
265               
266                </bitlbee-command>
267               
268                <bitlbee-command name="disconnect">
269                        <syntax>otr disconnect &lt;nick&gt;</syntax>
270                       
271                        <description>
272                       
273                                <para>
274                                        Resets the connection with the specified user to cleartext.
275                                </para>
276                               
277                        </description>
278               
279                </bitlbee-command>
280               
281                <bitlbee-command name="smp">
282                        <syntax>otr smp &lt;nick&gt; &lt;secret&gt;</syntax>
283                       
284                        <description>
285                       
286                                <para>
287                                        Attempts to authenticate the given user's active fingerprint via the Socialist Millionaires' Protocol.
288                                </para>
289                               
290                                <para>
291                                        If an SMP challenge has already been received from the given user, responds with the specified secret. Otherwise, a challenge for the secret will be sent. If the protocol succeeds (i.e. both parties gave the same secret), the fingerprint will be trusted.
292                                </para>
293                               
294                        </description>
295               
296                </bitlbee-command>
297               
298                <bitlbee-command name="trust">
299                        <syntax>otr trust &lt;nick&gt; &lt;fp1&gt; &lt;fp2&gt; &lt;fp3&gt; &lt;fp4&gt; &lt;fp5&gt;</syntax>
300                       
301                        <description>
302                       
303                                <para>
304                                        Manually affirms trust in the specified fingerprint, given as five blocks of precisely eight (hexadecimal) digits each.
305                                </para>
306                               
307                        </description>
308               
309                </bitlbee-command>
310               
311                <bitlbee-command name="info">
312                        <syntax>otr info</syntax>
313                        <syntax>otr info &lt;nick&gt;</syntax>
314                       
315                        <description>
316                       
317                                <para>
318                                        Shows information about the OTR state. The first form lists our private keys and current OTR contexts. The second form displays information about the connection with a given user, including the list of their known fingerprints.
319                                </para>
320                               
321                        </description>
322               
323                </bitlbee-command>
324               
325                <bitlbee-command name="keygen">
326                        <syntax>otr keygen &lt;account-no&gt;</syntax>
327                       
328                        <description>
329                       
330                                <para>
331                                        Generates a new OTR private key for the given account.
332                                </para>
333                               
334                        </description>
335               
336                </bitlbee-command>
337               
338                <bitlbee-command name="forget">
339                        <syntax>otr forget &lt;thing&gt; &lt;arguments&gt;</syntax>
340                       
341                        <description>
342                       
343                                <para>
344                                        Forgets some part of our OTR userstate. Available things: fingerprint, context, and key. See <emphasis>help otr forget &lt;thing&gt;</emphasis> for more information.
345                                </para>
346                       
347                        </description>
348                       
349                        <bitlbee-command name="fingerprint">
350                                <syntax>otr forget fingerprint &lt;nick&gt; &lt;fingerprint&gt;</syntax>
351                               
352                                <description>
353                               
354                                        <para>
355                                                Drops the specified fingerprint from the given user's OTR connection context. It is allowed to specify only a (unique) prefix of the desired fingerprint.
356                                        </para>
357                                       
358                                </description>
359                               
360                        </bitlbee-command>
361                               
362                        <bitlbee-command name="context">
363                                <syntax>otr forget context &lt;nick&gt;</syntax>
364                               
365                                <description>
366                               
367                                        <para>
368                                                Forgets the entire OTR context associated with the given user. This includes current message and protocol states, as well as any fingerprints for that user.
369                                        </para>
370                                       
371                                </description>
372                               
373                        </bitlbee-command>
374
375                        <bitlbee-command name="key">
376                                <syntax>otr forget key &lt;fingerprint&gt;</syntax>
377                               
378                                <description>
379                               
380                                        <para>
381                                                Forgets an OTR private key matching the specified fingerprint. It is allowed to specify only a (unique) prefix of the fingerprint.
382                                        </para>
383                                       
384                                </description>
385                               
386                        </bitlbee-command>
387               
388                </bitlbee-command>
389               
390        </bitlbee-command>
391
392        <bitlbee-command name="set">
393                <short-description>Miscellaneous settings</short-description>
394                <syntax>set</syntax>
395                <syntax>set &lt;variable&gt;</syntax>
396                <syntax>set &lt;variable&gt; &lt;value&gt;</syntax>
397                <syntax>set -del &lt;variable&gt;</syntax>
398
399                <description>
400
401                        <para>
402                                Without any arguments, this command lists all the set variables. You can also specify a single argument, a variable name, to get that variable's value. To change this value, specify the new value as the second argument. With <emphasis>-del</emphasis> you can reset a setting to its default value.
403                        </para>
404
405                        <para>
406                                To get more help information about a setting, try:
407                        </para>
408
409                </description>
410
411                <ircexample>
412                        <ircline nick="ctrlsoft">help set private</ircline>
413                </ircexample>
414
415        </bitlbee-command>
416
417        <bitlbee-command name="help">
418                <short-description>BitlBee help system</short-description>
419
420                <syntax>help [subject]</syntax>
421
422                <description>
423                        <para>
424                                This command gives you the help information you're reading right now. If you don't give any arguments, it'll give a short help index.
425                        </para>
426                </description>
427        </bitlbee-command>
428
429        <bitlbee-command name="save">
430                <short-description>Save your account data</short-description>
431                <syntax>save</syntax>
432
433                <description>
434                        <para>
435                                This command saves all your nicks and accounts immediately. Handy if you have the autosave functionality disabled, or if you don't trust the program's stability... ;-)
436                        </para>
437                </description>
438        </bitlbee-command>
439
440        <bitlbee-setting name="auto_connect" type="boolean" scope="both">
441                <default>true</default>
442
443                <description>
444                        <para>
445                                With this option enabled, when you identify BitlBee will automatically connect to your accounts, with this disabled it will not do this.
446                        </para>
447                       
448                        <para>
449                                This setting can also be changed for specific accounts using the <emphasis>account set</emphasis> command. (However, these values will be ignored if the global <emphasis>auto_connect</emphasis> setting is disabled!)
450                        </para>
451                </description>
452        </bitlbee-setting>
453
454        <bitlbee-setting name="auto_reconnect" type="boolean" scope="both">
455                <default>false</default>
456
457                <description>
458                        <para>
459                                If an IM-connections breaks, you're supposed to bring it back up yourself. Having BitlBee do this automatically might not always be a good idea, for several reasons. If you want the connections to be restored automatically, you can enable this setting.
460                        </para>
461
462                        <para>
463                                See also the <emphasis>auto_reconnect_delay</emphasis> setting.
464                        </para>
465
466                        <para>
467                                This setting can also be changed for specific accounts using the <emphasis>account set</emphasis> command. (However, these values will be ignored if the global <emphasis>auto_reconnect</emphasis> setting is disabled!)
468                        </para>
469                </description>
470        </bitlbee-setting>
471
472        <bitlbee-setting name="auto_reconnect_delay" type="integer" scope="global">
473                <default>300</default>
474
475                <description>
476                        <para>
477                                Tell BitlBee after how many seconds it should attempt to bring an IM-connection back up after a crash. It's not a good idea to set this value very low, it will cause too much useless traffic when an IM-server is down for a few hours.
478                        </para>
479
480                        <para>
481                                See also the <emphasis>auto_reconnect</emphasis> setting.
482                        </para>
483                </description>
484        </bitlbee-setting>
485
486        <bitlbee-setting name="away_devoice" type="boolean" scope="global">
487                <default>true</default>
488
489                <description>
490                        <para>
491                                With this option enabled, the root user devoices people when they go away (just away, not offline) and gives the voice back when they come back. You might dislike the voice-floods you'll get if your contact list is huge, so this option can be disabled.
492                        </para>
493                </description>
494        </bitlbee-setting>
495
496        <bitlbee-setting name="buddy_sendbuffer" type="boolean" scope="global">
497                <default>false</default>
498
499                <description>
500                        <para>
501                                By default, when you send a message to someone, BitlBee forwards this message to the user immediately. When you paste a large number of lines, the lines will be sent in separate messages, which might not be very nice to read. If you enable this setting, BitlBee will buffer your messages and wait for more data.
502                        </para>
503
504                        <para>
505                                Using the <emphasis>buddy_sendbuffer_delay</emphasis> setting you can specify the number of seconds BitlBee should wait for more data before the complete message is sent.
506                        </para>
507
508                        <para>
509                                Please note that if you remove a buddy from your list (or if the connection to that user drops) and there's still data in the buffer, this data will be lost. BitlBee will not try to send the message to the user in those cases.
510                        </para>
511                </description>
512        </bitlbee-setting>
513
514        <bitlbee-setting name="buddy_sendbuffer_delay" type="integer" scope="global">
515                <default>200</default>
516
517                <description>
518
519                        <para>
520                                Tell BitlBee after how many (mili)seconds a buffered message should be sent. Values greater than 5 will be interpreted as miliseconds, 5 and lower as seconds.
521                        </para>
522
523                        <para>
524                                See also the <emphasis>buddy_sendbuffer</emphasis> setting.
525                        </para>
526                </description>
527        </bitlbee-setting>
528
529        <bitlbee-setting name="charset" type="string" scope="global">
530                <default>utf-8</default>
531                <possible-values>you can get a list of all possible values by doing 'iconv -l' in a shell</possible-values>
532
533                <description>
534                        <para>
535                                This setting tells BitlBee what your IRC client sends and expects. It should be equal to the charset setting of your IRC client if you want to be able to send and receive non-ASCII text properly.
536                        </para>
537
538                        <para>
539                                Most systems use UTF-8 these days. On older systems, an iso8859 charset may work better. For example, iso8859-1 is the best choice for most Western countries. You can try to find what works best for you on http://www.unicodecharacter.com/charsets/iso8859.html
540                        </para>
541                </description>
542
543        </bitlbee-setting>
544
545        <bitlbee-setting name="color_encrypted" type="boolean" scope="global">
546                <default>true</default>
547
548                <description>
549                        <para>
550                                If set to true, BitlBee will color incoming encrypted messages according to their fingerprint trust level: untrusted=red, trusted=green.
551                        </para>
552                </description>
553
554        </bitlbee-setting>
555
556        <bitlbee-setting name="debug" type="boolean" scope="global">
557                <default>false</default>
558
559                <description>
560                        <para>
561                                Some debugging messages can be sent to the control channel if you wish. They're probably not really useful for you, unless you're doing some development on BitlBee.
562                        </para>
563                </description>
564        </bitlbee-setting>
565
566        <bitlbee-setting name="default_target" type="string" scope="global">
567                <default>root</default>
568                <possible-values>root, last</possible-values>
569
570                <description>
571                        <para>
572                                With this value set to <emphasis>root</emphasis>, lines written in the control channel without any nickname in front of them will be interpreted as commands. If you want BitlBee to send those lines to the last person you addressed in the control channel, set this to <emphasis>last</emphasis>.
573                        </para>
574                </description>
575        </bitlbee-setting>
576
577        <bitlbee-setting name="display_name" type="string" scope="account">
578                <description>
579                        <para>
580                                Currently only available for MSN connections. This setting allows you to read and change your "friendly name" for this connection. Since this is a server-side setting, it can't be changed when the account is off-line.
581                        </para>
582                </description>
583        </bitlbee-setting>
584
585        <bitlbee-setting name="display_namechanges" type="boolean" scope="global">
586                <default>false</default>
587
588                <description>
589                        <para>
590                                With this option enabled, root will inform you when someone in your buddy list changes his/her "friendly name".
591                        </para>
592                </description>
593        </bitlbee-setting>
594
595        <bitlbee-setting name="handle_unknown" type="string" scope="global">
596                <default>root</default>
597                <possible-values>root, add, add_private, add_channel, ignore</possible-values>
598
599                <description>
600                        <para>
601                                Messages from unknown users are echoed like this by default:
602                        </para>
603
604                        <ircexample>
605                                <ircline nick="root">Unknown message from handle 3137137:</ircline>
606                                <ircline nick="root">j0000! 1 4m l33t h4x0r! kill me!</ircline>
607                        </ircexample>
608
609                        <para>
610                                If you want this lame user to be added automatically, you can set this setting to "add". If you prefer to ignore messages from people you don't know, you can set this one to "ignore". "add_private" and "add_channel" are like add, but you can use them to make messages from unknown buddies appear in the channel instead of a query window.
611                        </para>
612
613                        <note>
614                                <para>
615                                        Auto-added users aren't added to your real contact list. This is because you don't want the user to get authorization requests. So when you restart BitlBee, the auto-added user will be gone. If you want to keep the person in your buddy-list, you have to fixate the add using the <emphasis>add</emphasis> command.
616                                </para>
617                        </note>
618                </description>
619
620        </bitlbee-setting>
621
622        <bitlbee-setting name="halfop_buddies" type="string" scope="global">
623                <default>encrypted</default>
624                <possible-values>encrypted, trusted, notaway, false</possible-values>
625
626                <description>
627                        <para>
628                                Specifies under which circumstances BitlBee should give the "halfop" mode flag (+h) to buddies.
629                        </para>
630                       
631                        <para>
632                                If "false", the flag is never set. On "notaway", the flag is removed for users marked as "away" and set for all others. On "encrypted", the flag is set for users with whom we have an encrypted connection. On "trusted", it is set only for encrypted connections using a trusted key.
633                        </para>
634                </description>
635
636        </bitlbee-setting>
637
638        <bitlbee-setting name="lcnicks" type="boolean" scope="global">
639                <default>true</default>
640
641                <description>
642                        <para>
643                                Hereby you can change whether you want all lower case nick names or leave the case as it intended by your peer.
644                        </para>
645                </description>
646
647        </bitlbee-setting>
648
649        <bitlbee-setting name="mail_notifications" type="boolean" scope="account">
650                <default>false</default>
651
652                <description>
653                        <para>
654                                Some protocols (MSN, Yahoo!) can notify via IM about new e-mail. Since most people use their Hotmail/Yahoo! addresses as a spam-box, this is disabled default. If you want these notifications, you can enable this setting.
655                        </para>
656                </description>
657
658        </bitlbee-setting>
659
660        <bitlbee-setting name="op_buddies" type="string" scope="global">
661                <default>trusted</default>
662                <possible-values>encrypted, trusted, notaway, false</possible-values>
663
664                <description>
665                        <para>
666                                Specifies under which circumstances BitlBee should give the "op" mode flag (+o) to buddies.
667                        </para>
668                       
669                        <para>
670                                If "false", the flag is never set. On "notaway", the flag is removed for users marked as "away" and set for all others. On "encrypted", the flag is set for users with whom we have an encrypted connection. On "trusted", it is set only for encrypted connections using a trusted key.
671                        </para>
672                </description>
673
674        </bitlbee-setting>
675
676        <bitlbee-setting name="op_root" type="bool" scope="global">
677                <default>true</default>
678
679                <description>
680                        <para>
681                                Some people prefer themself and root to have operator status in &amp;bitlbee, other people don't. You can set the desired state for root using this setting.
682                        </para>
683                </description>
684        </bitlbee-setting>
685
686        <bitlbee-setting name="op_user" type="bool" scope="global">
687                <default>true</default>
688
689                <description>
690                        <para>
691                                Some people prefer themself and root to have operator status in &amp;bitlbee, other people don't. You can set the desired state for yourself using this setting.
692                        </para>
693                </description>
694        </bitlbee-setting>
695
696        <bitlbee-setting name="otr_policy" type="string" scope="global">
697                <default>opportunistic</default>
698                <possible-values>never, opportunistic, manual, always</possible-values>
699
700                <description>
701                        <para>
702                                This setting controls the policy for establishing Off-the-Record connections.
703                        </para>
704                        <para>
705                                A value of "never" effectively disables the OTR subsystem. In "opportunistic" mode, a magic whitespace pattern will be appended to the first message sent to any user. If the peer is also running opportunistic OTR, an encrypted connection will be set up automatically. On "manual", on the other hand, OTR connections must be established explicitly using <emphasis>otr connect</emphasis>. Finally, the setting "always" enforces encrypted communication by causing BitlBee to refuse to send any cleartext messages at all.
706                        </para>
707                </description>
708        </bitlbee-setting>
709
710        <bitlbee-setting name="password" type="string" scope="both">
711                <description>
712                        <para>
713                                Use this global setting to change your "NickServ" password.
714                        </para>
715                       
716                        <para>
717                                This setting is also available for all IM accounts to change the password BitlBee uses to connect to the service.
718                        </para>
719                       
720                        <para>
721                                Note that BitlBee will always say this setting is empty. This doesn't mean there is no password, it just means that, for security reasons, BitlBee stores passwords somewhere else so they can't just be retrieved in plain text.
722                        </para>
723                </description>
724        </bitlbee-setting>
725       
726        <bitlbee-setting name="port" type="integer" scope="account">
727                <description>
728                        <para>
729                                Currently only available for Jabber connections. Specifies the port number to connect to. Usually this should be set to 5222, or 5223 for SSL-connections.
730                        </para>
731                </description>
732        </bitlbee-setting>
733
734        <bitlbee-setting name="priority" type="integer" scope="account">
735                <default>0</default>
736
737                <description>
738                        <para>
739                                Can be set for Jabber connections. When connecting to one account from multiple places, this priority value will help the server to determine where to deliver incoming messages (that aren't addressed to a specific resource already).
740                        </para>
741
742                        <para>
743                                According to RFC 3921 servers will always deliver messages to the server with the highest priority value. Mmessages will not be delivered to resources with a negative priority setting (and should be saved as an off-line message if all available resources have a negative priority value).
744                        </para>
745                </description>
746        </bitlbee-setting>
747
748        <bitlbee-setting name="private" type="boolean" scope="global">
749                <default>true</default>
750
751                <description>
752                        <para>
753                                If value is true, messages from users will appear in separate query windows. If false, messages from users will appear in the control channel.
754                        </para>
755
756                        <para>
757                                This setting is remembered (during one session) per-user, this setting only changes the default state. This option takes effect as soon as you reconnect.
758                        </para>
759                </description>
760        </bitlbee-setting>
761
762        <bitlbee-setting name="query_order" type="string" scope="global">
763                <default>lifo</default>
764                <possible-values>lifo, fifo</possible-values>
765
766                <description>
767                        <para>
768                                This changes the order in which the questions from root (usually authorization requests from buddies) should be answered. When set to <emphasis>lifo</emphasis>, BitlBee immediately displays all new questions and they should be answered in reverse order. When this is set to <emphasis>fifo</emphasis>, BitlBee displays the first question which comes in and caches all the others until you answer the first one.
769                        </para>
770
771                        <para>
772                                Although the <emphasis>fifo</emphasis> setting might sound more logical (and used to be the default behaviour in older BitlBee versions), it turned out not to be very convenient for many users when they missed the first question (and never received the next ones).
773                        </para>
774                </description>
775        </bitlbee-setting>
776
777        <bitlbee-setting name="resource" type="string" scope="account">
778                <default>BitlBee</default>
779
780                <description>
781                        <para>
782                                Can be set for Jabber connections. You can use this to connect to your Jabber account from multiple clients at once, with every client using a different resource string.
783                        </para>
784                </description>
785        </bitlbee-setting>
786
787        <bitlbee-setting name="resource_select" type="string" scope="account">
788                <default>priority</default>
789                <possible-values>priority, time</possible-values>
790
791                <description>
792                        <para>
793                                Because the IRC interface makes it pretty hard to specify the resource to talk to (when a buddy is online through different resources), this setting was added.
794                        </para>
795
796                        <para>
797                                Normally it's set to <emphasis>priority</emphasis> which means messages will always be delivered to the buddy's resource with the highest priority. If the setting is set to <emphasis>time</emphasis>, messages will be delivered to the resource that was last used to send you a message (or the resource that most recently connected).
798                        </para>
799                </description>
800        </bitlbee-setting>
801
802        <bitlbee-setting name="root_nick" type="string" scope="global">
803                <default>root</default>
804
805                <description>
806                        <para>
807                                Normally the "bot" that takes all your BitlBee commands is called "root". If you don't like this name, you can rename it to anything else using the <emphasis>rename</emphasis> command, or by changing this setting.
808                        </para>
809                </description>
810        </bitlbee-setting>
811
812        <bitlbee-setting name="save_on_quit" type="boolean" scope="global">
813                <default>true</default>
814
815                <description>
816                        <para>
817                                If enabled causes BitlBee to save all current settings and account details when user disconnects. This is enabled by default, and these days there's not really a reason to have it disabled anymore.
818                        </para>
819                </description>
820        </bitlbee-setting>
821
822        <bitlbee-setting name="server" type="string" scope="account">
823                <description>
824                        <para>
825                                Can be set for Jabber- and OSCAR-connections. For Jabber, you might have to set this if the servername isn't equal to the part after the @ in the Jabber handle. For OSCAR this shouldn't be necessary anymore in recent BitlBee versions.
826                        </para>
827                </description>
828        </bitlbee-setting>
829
830        <bitlbee-setting name="simulate_netsplit" type="boolean" scope="global">
831                <default>true</default>
832
833                <description>
834                        <para>
835                                Some IRC clients parse quit messages sent by the IRC server to see if someone really left or just disappeared because of a netsplit. By default, BitlBee tries to simulate netsplit-like quit messages to keep the control channel window clean. If you don't like this (or if your IRC client doesn't support this) you can disable this setting.
836                        </para>
837                </description>
838        </bitlbee-setting>
839
840        <bitlbee-setting name="ssl" type="boolean" scope="account">
841                <default>false</default>
842
843                <description>
844                        <para>
845                                Currently only available for Jabber connections. Set this to true if the server accepts SSL connections.
846                        </para>
847                </description>
848        </bitlbee-setting>
849
850        <bitlbee-setting name="strip_html" type="boolean" scope="global">
851                <default>true</default>
852
853                <description>
854                        <para>
855                                Determines what BitlBee should do with HTML in messages. Normally this is turned on and HTML will be stripped from messages, if BitlBee thinks there is HTML.
856                        </para>
857                        <para>
858                                If BitlBee fails to detect this sometimes (most likely in AIM messages over an ICQ connection), you can set this setting to <emphasis>always</emphasis>, but this might sometimes accidentally strip non-HTML things too.
859                        </para>
860                </description>
861        </bitlbee-setting>
862
863        <bitlbee-setting name="tls" type="boolean" scope="account">
864                <default>try</default>
865
866                <description>
867                        <para>
868                                Newer Jabber servers allow clients to convert a plain-text session to a TLS/SSL-encrypted session. Normally (with this setting set to <emphasis>try</emphasis>) BitlBee will do this, if possible.
869                        </para>
870
871                        <para>
872                                If you want to force BitlBee to use TLS sessions only (and to give up if that doesn't seem to be possible) you can set this setting to <emphasis>true</emphasis>. Set it to <emphasis>false</emphasis> if you want the session to remain plain-text.
873                        </para>
874                </description>
875        </bitlbee-setting>
876
877        <bitlbee-setting name="to_char" type="string" scope="global">
878                <default>": "</default>
879
880                <description>
881                        <para>
882                                It's customary that messages meant for one specific person on an IRC channel are prepended by his/her alias followed by a colon ':'. BitlBee does this by default. If you prefer a different character, you can set it using <emphasis>set to_char</emphasis>.
883                        </para>
884
885                        <para>
886                                Please note that this setting is only used for incoming messages. For outgoing messages you can use ':' (colon) or ',' to separate the destination nick from the message, and this is not configurable.
887                        </para>
888                </description>
889        </bitlbee-setting>
890
891        <bitlbee-setting name="typing_notice" type="boolean" scope="global">
892                <default>false</default>
893
894                <description>
895                        <para>
896                                Sends you a /notice when a user starts typing a message (if supported by the IM protocol and the user's client). To use this, you most likely want to use a script in your IRC client to show this information in a more sensible way.
897                        </para>
898                </description>
899        </bitlbee-setting>
900
901        <bitlbee-setting name="voice_buddies" type="string" scope="global">
902                <default>trusted</default>
903                <possible-values>encrypted, trusted, notaway, false</possible-values>
904
905                <description>
906                        <para>
907                                Specifies under which circumstances BitlBee should give the "voice" mode flag (+v) to buddies.
908                        </para>
909                       
910                        <para>
911                                If "false", the flag is never set. On "notaway", the flag is removed for users marked as "away" and set for all others. On "encrypted", the flag is set for users with whom we have an encrypted connection. On "trusted", it is set only for encrypted connections using a trusted key.
912                        </para>
913                </description>
914
915        </bitlbee-setting>
916
917        <bitlbee-setting name="web_aware" type="string" scope="account">
918                <default>false</default>
919
920                <description>
921                        <para>
922                                ICQ allows people to see if you're on-line via a CGI-script. (http://status.icq.com/online.gif?icq=UIN) This can be nice to put on your website, but it seems that spammers also use it to see if you're online without having to add you to their contact list. So to prevent ICQ spamming, recent versions of BitlBee disable this feature by default.
923                        </para>
924
925                        <para>
926                                Unless you really intend to use this feature somewhere (on forums or maybe a website), it's probably better to keep this setting disabled.
927                        </para>
928                </description>
929        </bitlbee-setting>
930
931        <bitlbee-setting name="xmlconsole" type="boolean" scope="account">
932                <default>false</default>
933
934                <description>
935                        <para>
936                                The Jabber module allows you to add a buddy <emphasis>xmlconsole</emphasis> to your contact list, which will then show you the raw XMPP stream between you and the server. You can also send XMPP packets to this buddy, which will then be sent to the server.
937                        </para>
938                        <para>
939                                If you want to enable this XML console permanently (and at login time already), you can set this setting.
940                        </para>
941                </description>
942        </bitlbee-setting>
943
944        <bitlbee-command name="rename">
945                <short-description>Rename (renick) a buddy</short-description>
946                <syntax>rename &lt;oldnick&gt; &lt;newnick&gt;</syntax>
947
948                <description>
949                        <para>
950                                Renick a user in your buddy list. Very useful, in fact just very important, if you got a lot of people with stupid account names (or hard ICQ numbers).
951                        </para>
952                </description>
953
954                <ircexample>
955                        <ircline nick="itsme">rename itsme_ you</ircline>
956                        <ircaction nick="itsme_">is now known as <emphasis>you</emphasis></ircaction>
957                </ircexample>
958
959        </bitlbee-command>
960
961        <bitlbee-command name="yes">
962                <short-description>Accept a request</short-description>
963                <syntax>yes [&lt;number&gt;]</syntax>
964
965                <description>
966                        <para>
967                                Sometimes an IM-module might want to ask you a question. (Accept this user as your buddy or not?) To accept a question, use the <emphasis>yes</emphasis> command.
968                        </para>
969
970                        <para>
971                                By default, this answers the first unanswered question. You can also specify a different question as an argument. You can use the <emphasis>qlist</emphasis> command for a list of questions.
972                        </para>
973                </description>
974
975        </bitlbee-command>
976
977        <bitlbee-command name="no">
978                <short-description>Deny a request</short-description>
979                <syntax>no [&lt;number&gt;]</syntax>
980
981                <description>
982                        <para>
983                                Sometimes an IM-module might want to ask you a question. (Accept this user as your buddy or not?) To reject a question, use the <emphasis>no</emphasis> command.
984                        </para>
985
986                        <para>
987                                By default, this answers the first unanswered question. You can also specify a different question as an argument. You can use the <emphasis>qlist</emphasis> command for a list of questions.
988                        </para>
989                </description>
990        </bitlbee-command>
991
992        <bitlbee-command name="qlist">
993                <short-description>List all the unanswered questions root asked</short-description>
994                <syntax>qlist</syntax>
995
996                <description>
997                        <para>
998                                This gives you a list of all the unanswered questions from root.
999                        </para>
1000                </description>
1001
1002        </bitlbee-command>
1003
1004        <bitlbee-command name="register">
1005                <short-description>Register yourself</short-description>
1006                <syntax>register &lt;password&gt;</syntax>
1007
1008                <description>
1009                        <para>
1010                                BitlBee can save your settings so you won't have to enter all your IM passwords every time you log in. If you want the Bee to save your settings, use the <emphasis>register</emphasis> command.
1011                        </para>
1012
1013                        <para>
1014                                Please do pick a secure password, don't just use your nick as your password. Please note that IRC is not an encrypted protocol, so the passwords still go over the network in plaintext. Evil people with evil sniffers will read it all. (So don't use your root password.. ;-)
1015                        </para>
1016
1017                        <para>
1018                                To identify yourself in later sessions, you can use the <emphasis>identify</emphasis> command. To change your password later, you can use the <emphasis>set password</emphasis> command.
1019                        </para>
1020                </description>
1021
1022        </bitlbee-command>
1023
1024        <bitlbee-command name="identify">
1025                <syntax>identify &lt;password&gt;</syntax>
1026                <short-description>Identify yourself with your password</short-description>
1027
1028                <description>
1029                        <para>
1030                                BitlBee saves all your settings (contacts, accounts, passwords) on-server. To prevent other users from just logging in as you and getting this information, you'll have to identify yourself with your password. You can register this password using the <emphasis>register</emphasis> command.
1031                        </para>
1032
1033                        <para>
1034                                Once you're registered, you can change your password using <emphasis>set password &lt;password&gt;</emphasis>.
1035                        </para>
1036                </description>
1037        </bitlbee-command>
1038
1039        <bitlbee-command name="drop">
1040                <syntax>drop &lt;password&gt;</syntax>
1041                <short-description>Drop your account</short-description>
1042
1043                <description>
1044                        <para>
1045                                Drop your BitlBee registration. Your account files will be removed and your password will be forgotten. For obvious security reasons, you have to specify your NickServ password to make this command work.
1046                        </para>
1047                </description>
1048        </bitlbee-command>
1049
1050        <bitlbee-command name="blist">
1051                <syntax>blist [all|online|offline|away]</syntax>
1052                <short-description>List all the buddies in your contact list</short-description>
1053
1054                <description>
1055                        <para>
1056                                You can get a better readable buddy list using the <emphasis>blist</emphasis> command. If you want a complete list (including the offline users) you can use the <emphasis>all</emphasis> argument.
1057                        </para>
1058                </description>
1059
1060        </bitlbee-command>
1061
1062        <bitlbee-command name="nick">
1063                <short-description>Change friendly name, nick</short-description>
1064                <syntax>nick &lt;connection&gt; [&lt;new nick&gt;]</syntax>
1065                <syntax>nick &lt;connection&gt;</syntax>
1066
1067                <description>
1068                        <para>
1069                                Deprecated: Use the per-account <emphasis>display_name</emphasis> setting to read and change this information.
1070                        </para>
1071                </description>
1072
1073                <ircexample>
1074                        <ircline nick="wouter">account set 1/display_name "The majestik møøse"</ircline>
1075                        <ircline nick="root">display_name = `The majestik møøse'</ircline>
1076                </ircexample>
1077
1078        </bitlbee-command>
1079
1080        <bitlbee-command name="join_chat">
1081                <short-description>Join a named groupchat/conference room</short-description>
1082                <syntax>join_chat &lt;connection&gt; &lt;room name&gt; [&lt;channel name&gt;] [&lt;room nickname&gt;] [&lt;password&gt;]</syntax>
1083
1084                <description>
1085                        <para>
1086                                On most IM-networks groupchats can be started using the /join command. (<emphasis>/join #foo</emphasis> to start a chatroom with you and <emphasis>foo</emphasis>) This doesn't work with names groupchats though (which exist on Jabber networks and AIM, for example), instead you can use this command.
1087                        </para>
1088
1089                        <para>
1090                                The first two arguments are required. <emphasis>room name</emphasis> is the name of the chatroom on the IM-network. <emphasis>channel name</emphasis> is the IRC channel name BitlBee should map this to. <emphasis>room nickname</emphasis> is the nickname you want to have in this channel. If you don't give these options, BitlBee will do the right guesses.
1091                        </para>
1092
1093                        <para>
1094                                The following command will join you to the chatroom called <emphasis>bitlbee@conference.bitlbee.org</emphasis>. The channel will be called <emphasis>&amp;bitlbee-help</emphasis> because <emphasis>&amp;bitlbee</emphasis> will already be in use. Your nickname will be <emphasis>help-me</emphasis>.
1095                        </para>
1096                </description>
1097
1098                <ircexample>
1099                        <ircline nick="wilmer">join_chat jabber bitlbee@conference.bitlbee.org &amp;bitlbee-help help-me</ircline>
1100                </ircexample>
1101
1102        </bitlbee-command>
1103</chapter>
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