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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;account id&gt;] &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. For a list of supported protocols, use the <emphasis>plugins</emphasis> command. For more information about adding an account, see <emphasis>help account add &lt;protocol&gt;</emphasis>.
24                                </para>
25
26                                <para>
27                                        You can omit the password and enter it separately using the IRC /OPER command. This lets you enter your password without your IRC client echoing it on screen or recording it in logs.
28                                </para>
29                        </description>
30                       
31                        <bitlbee-command name="jabber">
32                                <syntax>account add jabber &lt;handle@server.tld&gt; [&lt;password&gt;]</syntax>
33
34                                <description>
35                                        <para>
36                                                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.
37                                        </para>
38
39                                        <para>
40                                                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>).
41                                        </para>
42                                </description>
43                        </bitlbee-command>
44
45                        <bitlbee-command name="msn">
46                                <syntax>account add msn &lt;handle@server.tld&gt; [&lt;password&gt;]</syntax>
47
48                                <description>
49                                        <para>
50                                                For MSN connections there are no special arguments.
51                                        </para>
52                                </description>
53                        </bitlbee-command>
54                       
55                        <bitlbee-command name="oscar">
56                                <syntax>account add oscar &lt;handle&gt; [&lt;password&gt;]</syntax>
57
58                                <description>
59                                        <para>
60                                                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.
61                                        </para>
62                                </description>
63
64                                <ircexample>
65                                        <ircline nick="wilmer">account add oscar 72696705 hobbelmeeuw</ircline>
66                                        <ircline nick="root">Account successfully added</ircline>
67                                </ircexample>
68                        </bitlbee-command>
69                       
70                        <bitlbee-command name="twitter">
71                                <syntax>account add twitter &lt;handle&gt;</syntax>
72
73                                <description>
74                                        <para>
75                                                This module gives you simple access to Twitter and Twitter API compatible services.
76                                        </para>
77                                       
78                                        <para>
79                                                By default all your Twitter contacts will appear in a new channel called #twitter_yourusername. You can change this behaviour using the <emphasis>mode</emphasis> setting (see <emphasis>help set mode</emphasis>).
80                                        </para>
81                                       
82                                        <para>
83                                                To send tweets yourself, send them to the twitter_(yourusername) contact, or just write in the groupchat channel if you enabled that option.
84                                        </para>
85
86                                        <para>
87                                                Since Twitter now requires OAuth authentication, you should not enter your Twitter password into BitlBee. Just type a bogus password. The first time you log in, BitlBee will start OAuth authentication. (See <emphasis>help set oauth</emphasis>.)
88                                        </para>
89                                       
90                                        <para>
91                                                To use a non-Twitter service, change the <emphasis>base_url</emphasis> setting. For identi.ca, you can simply use <emphasis>account add identica</emphasis>.
92                                        </para>
93                                </description>
94                        </bitlbee-command>
95                       
96                        <bitlbee-command name="identica">
97                                <syntax>account add identica &lt;handle&gt;</syntax>
98
99                                <description>
100                                        <para>
101                                                Same protocol as <emphasis>twitter</emphasis>, but defaults to a <emphasis>base_url</emphasis> pointing at identi.ca. It also works with OAuth (so don't specify your password).
102                                        </para>
103                                </description>
104                        </bitlbee-command>
105
106                </bitlbee-command>
107
108                <bitlbee-command name="del">
109                        <syntax>account &lt;account id&gt; del</syntax>
110
111                        <description>
112                                <para>
113                                        This command deletes an account from your account list. You should signoff the account before deleting it.
114                                </para>
115
116
117                                <para>
118                                        The account ID can be a number/tag (see <emphasis>account list</emphasis>), the protocol name or (part of) the screenname, as long as it matches only one connection.
119                                </para>
120                        </description>
121                </bitlbee-command>
122
123                <bitlbee-command name="on">
124                        <syntax>account [&lt;account id&gt;] on</syntax>
125
126                        <description>
127                                <para>
128                                        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.
129                                </para>
130
131                                <para>
132                                        The account ID can be a number/tag (see <emphasis>account list</emphasis>), the protocol name or (part of) the screenname, as long as it matches only one connection.
133                                </para>
134                        </description>
135
136                </bitlbee-command>
137
138                <bitlbee-command name="off">
139                        <syntax>account [&lt;account id&gt;] off</syntax>
140
141                        <description>
142                                <para>
143                                        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.
144                                </para>
145
146                                <para>
147                                        The account ID can be a number/tag (see <emphasis>account list</emphasis>), the protocol name or (part of) the screenname, as long as it matches only one connection.
148                                </para>
149                        </description>
150                </bitlbee-command>
151
152                <bitlbee-command name="list">
153                        <syntax>account list</syntax>
154
155                        <description>
156                                <para>
157                                        This command gives you a list of all the accounts known by BitlBee.
158                                </para>
159                        </description>
160                </bitlbee-command>
161
162                <bitlbee-command name="set">
163                        <syntax>account &lt;account id&gt; set</syntax>
164                        <syntax>account &lt;account id&gt; set &lt;setting&gt;</syntax>
165                        <syntax>account &lt;account id&gt; set &lt;setting&gt; &lt;value&gt;</syntax>
166                        <syntax>account &lt;account id&gt; set -del &lt;setting&gt;</syntax>
167
168                        <description>
169                                <para>
170                                        This command 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 &lt;account id&gt; set</emphasis>.
171                                </para>
172                               
173                                <para>
174                                        For more information about a setting, see <emphasis>help set &lt;setting&gt;</emphasis>.
175                                </para>
176                               
177                                <para>
178                                        The account ID can be a number/tag (see <emphasis>account list</emphasis>), the protocol name or (part of) the screenname, as long as it matches only one connection.
179                                </para>
180                        </description>
181                </bitlbee-command>
182        </bitlbee-command>
183
184        <bitlbee-command name="channel">
185                <short-description>Channel list maintenance</short-description>
186                <syntax>channel [&lt;channel id&gt;] &lt;action&gt; [&lt;arguments&gt;]</syntax>
187
188                <description>
189                        <para>
190                                Available actions: del, list, set. See <emphasis>help channel &lt;action&gt;</emphasis> for more information.
191                        </para>
192                       
193                        <para>
194                                There is no <emphasis>channel add</emphasis> command. To create a new channel, just use the IRC <emphasis>/join</emphasis> command. See also <emphasis>help channels</emphasis> and <emphasis>help groupchats</emphasis>.
195                        </para>
196                </description>
197
198                <bitlbee-command name="del">
199                        <syntax>channel &lt;channel id&gt; del</syntax>
200
201                        <description>
202                                <para>
203                                        Remove a channel and forget all its settings. You can only remove channels you're not currently in, and can't remove the main control channel. (You can, however, leave it.)
204                                </para>
205                        </description>
206
207                </bitlbee-command>
208
209                <bitlbee-command name="list">
210                        <syntax>channel list</syntax>
211
212                        <description>
213                                <para>
214                                        This command gives you a list of all the channels you configured.
215                                </para>
216                        </description>
217
218                </bitlbee-command>
219
220                <bitlbee-command name="set">
221                        <syntax>channel [&lt;channel id&gt;] set</syntax>
222                        <syntax>channel [&lt;channel id&gt;] set &lt;setting&gt;</syntax>
223                        <syntax>channel [&lt;channel id&gt;] set &lt;setting&gt; &lt;value&gt;</syntax>
224                        <syntax>channel [&lt;channel id&gt;] set -del &lt;setting&gt;</syntax>
225
226                        <description>
227                                <para>
228                                        This command can be used to change various settings for channels. Different channel types support different settings. You can see the settings available for a channel by typing <emphasis>channel &lt;channel id&gt; set</emphasis>.
229                                </para>
230                               
231                                <para>
232                                        For more information about a setting, see <emphasis>help set &lt;setting&gt;</emphasis>.
233                                </para>
234                               
235                                <para>
236                                        The channel ID can be a number (see <emphasis>channel list</emphasis>), or (part of) its name, as long as it matches only one channel. If you want to change settings of the current channel, you can omit the channel ID.
237                                </para>
238                        </description>
239                </bitlbee-command>
240
241        </bitlbee-command>
242
243        <bitlbee-command name="chat">
244                <short-description>Chatroom list maintenance</short-description>
245                <syntax>chat &lt;action&gt; [&lt;arguments&gt;]</syntax>
246
247                <description>
248
249                        <para>
250                                Available actions: add, with, list. See <emphasis>help chat &lt;action&gt;</emphasis> for more information.
251                        </para>
252
253                </description>
254
255                <bitlbee-command name="add">
256                        <syntax>chat add &lt;account id&gt; &lt;room|!index&gt; [&lt;channel&gt;]</syntax>
257
258                        <description>
259                                <para>
260                                        Add a chatroom to the list of chatrooms you're interested in. BitlBee needs this list to map room names to a proper IRC channel name.
261                                </para>
262
263                                <para>
264                                        After adding a room to your list, you can simply use the IRC /join command to enter the room. Also, you can tell BitlBee to automatically join the room when you log in. (<emphasis>channel &lt;channel&gt; set auto_join true</emphasis>)
265                                </para>
266
267                                <para>
268                                        Password-protected rooms work exactly like on IRC, by passing the password as an extra argument to /join.
269                                </para>
270                        </description>
271
272                </bitlbee-command>
273
274                <bitlbee-command name="list">
275                        <syntax>chat list &lt;account id&gt; [&lt;server&gt;]</syntax>
276
277                        <description>
278                                <para>
279                                        List existing named chatrooms provided by an account. Chats from this list can be referenced from <emphasis>chat add</emphasis> by using the number in the index column after a "!" as a shortcut.
280                                </para>
281
282                                <para>
283                                        The server parameter is optional and currently only used by jabber.
284                                </para>
285                        </description>
286
287                        <ircexample>
288                                <ircline nick="dx">chat list facebook</ircline>
289                                <ircline pre="1" nick="root">Index  Title                 Topic</ircline>
290                                <ircline pre="1" nick="root">    1  869891016470949       cool kids club</ircline>
291                                <ircline pre="1" nick="root">    2  457892181062459       uncool kids club</ircline>
292                                <ircline nick="root">2 facebook chatrooms</ircline>
293                                <ircline nick="dx">chat add facebook !1 #cool-kids-club</ircline>
294                        </ircexample>
295                </bitlbee-command>
296
297                <bitlbee-command name="with">
298                        <syntax>chat with &lt;nickname&gt;</syntax>
299
300                        <description>
301                                <para>
302                                        While most <emphasis>chat</emphasis> subcommands are about named chatrooms, this command can be used to open an unnamed groupchat with one or more persons. This command is what <emphasis>/join #nickname</emphasis> used to do in older BitlBee versions.
303                                </para>
304
305                                <para>
306                                        Another way to do this is to join to a new, empty channel with <emphasis>/join #newchannel</emphasis> and invite the first person with <emphasis>/invite nickname</emphasis>
307                                </para>
308                        </description>
309                </bitlbee-command>
310        </bitlbee-command>
311
312        <bitlbee-command name="add">
313                <short-description>Add a buddy to your contact list</short-description>
314                <syntax>add &lt;account id&gt; &lt;handle&gt; [&lt;nick&gt;]</syntax>
315                <syntax>add -tmp &lt;account id&gt; &lt;handle&gt; [&lt;nick&gt;]</syntax>
316
317                <description>
318                        <para>
319                                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.
320                        </para>
321
322                        <para>
323                                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.
324                        </para>
325
326                        <para>
327                                If you use this command in a control channel containing people from only one group, the new contact will be added to that group automatically.
328                        </para>
329                </description>
330
331                <ircexample>
332                        <ircline nick="ctrlsoft">add 3 gryp@jabber.org grijp</ircline>
333                        <ircaction nick="grijp" hostmask="gryp@jabber.org">has joined <emphasis>&amp;bitlbee</emphasis></ircaction>
334                </ircexample>
335        </bitlbee-command>
336
337        <bitlbee-command name="info">
338                <short-description>Request user information</short-description>
339                <syntax>info &lt;connection&gt; &lt;handle&gt;</syntax>
340                <syntax>info &lt;nick&gt;</syntax>
341
342                <description>
343                        <para>
344                                Requests IM-network-specific information about the specified user. The amount of information you'll get differs per protocol. For some protocols it'll give you an URL which you can visit with a normal web browser to get the information.
345                        </para>
346                </description>
347
348                <ircexample>
349                        <ircline nick="ctrlsoft">info 0 72696705</ircline>
350                        <ircline nick="root">User info - UIN: 72696705   Nick: Lintux   First/Last name: Wilmer van der Gaast   E-mail: lintux@lintux.cx</ircline>
351                </ircexample>
352
353        </bitlbee-command>
354
355        <bitlbee-command name="remove">
356                <short-description>Remove a buddy from your contact list</short-description>
357                <syntax>remove &lt;nick&gt;</syntax>
358
359                <description>
360                        <para>
361                                Removes the specified nick from your buddy list.
362                        </para>
363                </description>
364
365                <ircexample>
366                        <ircline nick="ctrlsoft">remove gryp</ircline>
367                        <ircaction nick="gryp" hostmask="gryp@jabber.jabber.org">has quit <emphasis>[Leaving...]</emphasis></ircaction>
368                </ircexample>
369
370        </bitlbee-command>
371
372        <bitlbee-command name="block">
373                <short-description>Block someone</short-description>
374                <syntax>block &lt;nick&gt;</syntax>
375                <syntax>block &lt;connection&gt; &lt;handle&gt;</syntax>
376                <syntax>block &lt;connection&gt;</syntax>
377
378                <description>
379                        <para>
380                                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.
381                        </para>
382                       
383                        <para>
384                                When called with only a connection specification as an argument, the command displays the current block list for that connection.
385                        </para>
386                </description>
387        </bitlbee-command>
388
389        <bitlbee-command name="allow">
390                <short-description>Unblock someone</short-description>
391                <syntax>allow &lt;nick&gt;</syntax>
392                <syntax>allow &lt;connection&gt; &lt;handle&gt;</syntax>
393
394                <description>
395                        <para>
396                                Reverse of block. Unignores the specified user or user handle on specified connection.
397                        </para>
398                       
399                        <para>
400                                When called with only a connection specification as an argument, the command displays the current allow list for that connection.
401                        </para>
402                </description>
403        </bitlbee-command>
404       
405        <bitlbee-command name="otr">
406                <short-description>Off-the-Record encryption control</short-description>
407                <syntax>otr &lt;subcommand&gt; [&lt;arguments&gt;]</syntax>
408
409                <description>
410
411                        <para>
412                                Available subcommands: connect, disconnect, reconnect, smp, smpq, trust, info, keygen, and forget. See <emphasis>help otr &lt;subcommand&gt;</emphasis> for more information.
413                        </para>
414
415                </description>
416               
417                <bitlbee-command name="connect">
418                        <syntax>otr connect &lt;nick&gt;</syntax>
419                       
420                        <description>
421                       
422                                <para>
423                                        Attempts to establish an encrypted connection with the specified user by sending a magic string.
424                                </para>
425                               
426                        </description>
427               
428                </bitlbee-command>
429               
430                <bitlbee-command name="disconnect">
431                        <syntax>otr disconnect &lt;nick&gt;</syntax>
432                        <syntax>otr disconnect *</syntax>
433                       
434                        <description>
435                       
436                                <para>
437                                        Resets the connection with the specified user/all users to cleartext.
438                                </para>
439                               
440                        </description>
441               
442                </bitlbee-command>
443               
444                <bitlbee-command name="reconnect">
445                        <syntax>otr reconnect &lt;nick&gt;</syntax>
446                       
447                        <description>
448                       
449                                <para>
450                                        Breaks and re-establishes the encrypted connection with the specified user. Useful if something got desynced.
451                                </para>
452                               
453                                <para>
454                                        Equivalent to <emphasis>otr disconnect</emphasis> followed by <emphasis>otr connect</emphasis>.
455                                </para>
456                               
457                        </description>
458               
459                </bitlbee-command>
460               
461                <bitlbee-command name="smp">
462                        <syntax>otr smp &lt;nick&gt; &lt;secret&gt;</syntax>
463                       
464                        <description>
465                       
466                                <para>
467                                        Attempts to authenticate the given user's active fingerprint via the Socialist Millionaires' Protocol.
468                                </para>
469                               
470                                <para>
471                                        If an SMP challenge has been received from the given user, responds with the specified secret/answer. Otherwise, sends a challenge for the given secret.
472                                </para>
473                               
474                                <para>
475                                        Note that there are two flavors of SMP challenges: "shared-secret" and "question &amp; answer". This command is used to respond to both of them, or to initiate a shared-secret style exchange. Use the <emphasis>otr smpq</emphasis> command to initiate a "Q&amp;A" session.
476                                </para>
477                               
478                                <para>
479                                        When responding to a "Q&amp;A" challenge, the local trust value is not altered. Only the <emphasis>asking party</emphasis> sets trust in the case of success. Use <emphasis>otr smpq</emphasis> to pose your challenge. In a shared-secret exchange, both parties set their trust according to the outcome.
480                                </para>
481                               
482                        </description>
483               
484                </bitlbee-command>
485               
486                <bitlbee-command name="smpq">
487                        <syntax>otr smpq &lt;nick&gt; &lt;question&gt; &lt;answer&gt;</syntax>
488                       
489                        <description>
490                       
491                                <para>
492                                        Attempts to authenticate the given user's active fingerprint via the Socialist Millionaires' Protocol, Q&amp;A style.
493                                </para>
494
495                                <para>
496                                        Initiates an SMP session in "question &amp; answer" style. The question is transmitted with the initial SMP packet and used to prompt the other party. You must be confident that only they know the answer. If the protocol succeeds (i.e. they answer correctly), the fingerprint will be trusted. Note that the answer must be entered exactly, case and punctuation count!
497                                </para>
498                               
499                                <para>
500                                        Note that this style of SMP only affects the trust setting on your side. Expect your opponent to send you their own challenge. Alternatively, if you and the other party have a shared secret, use the <emphasis>otr smp</emphasis> command.
501                                </para>
502                               
503                        </description>
504               
505                </bitlbee-command>
506               
507                <bitlbee-command name="trust">
508                        <syntax>otr trust &lt;nick&gt; &lt;fp1&gt; &lt;fp2&gt; &lt;fp3&gt; &lt;fp4&gt; &lt;fp5&gt;</syntax>
509                       
510                        <description>
511                       
512                                <para>
513                                        Manually affirms trust in the specified fingerprint, given as five blocks of precisely eight (hexadecimal) digits each.
514                                </para>
515                               
516                        </description>
517               
518                </bitlbee-command>
519               
520                <bitlbee-command name="info">
521                        <syntax>otr info</syntax>
522                        <syntax>otr info &lt;nick&gt;</syntax>
523                       
524                        <description>
525                       
526                                <para>
527                                        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.
528                                </para>
529                               
530                        </description>
531               
532                </bitlbee-command>
533               
534                <bitlbee-command name="keygen">
535                        <syntax>otr keygen &lt;account-no&gt;</syntax>
536                       
537                        <description>
538                       
539                                <para>
540                                        Generates a new OTR private key for the given account.
541                                </para>
542                               
543                        </description>
544               
545                </bitlbee-command>
546               
547                <bitlbee-command name="forget">
548                        <syntax>otr forget &lt;thing&gt; &lt;arguments&gt;</syntax>
549                       
550                        <description>
551                       
552                                <para>
553                                        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.
554                                </para>
555                       
556                        </description>
557                       
558                        <bitlbee-command name="fingerprint">
559                                <syntax>otr forget fingerprint &lt;nick&gt; &lt;fingerprint&gt;</syntax>
560                               
561                                <description>
562                               
563                                        <para>
564                                                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.
565                                        </para>
566                                       
567                                </description>
568                               
569                        </bitlbee-command>
570                               
571                        <bitlbee-command name="context">
572                                <syntax>otr forget context &lt;nick&gt;</syntax>
573                               
574                                <description>
575                               
576                                        <para>
577                                                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.
578                                        </para>
579                                       
580                                </description>
581                               
582                        </bitlbee-command>
583
584                        <bitlbee-command name="key">
585                                <syntax>otr forget key &lt;fingerprint&gt;</syntax>
586                               
587                                <description>
588                               
589                                        <para>
590                                                Forgets an OTR private key matching the specified fingerprint. It is allowed to specify only a (unique) prefix of the fingerprint.
591                                        </para>
592                                       
593                                </description>
594                               
595                        </bitlbee-command>
596               
597                </bitlbee-command>
598               
599        </bitlbee-command>
600
601        <bitlbee-command name="set">
602                <short-description>Miscellaneous settings</short-description>
603                <syntax>set</syntax>
604                <syntax>set &lt;variable&gt;</syntax>
605                <syntax>set &lt;variable&gt; &lt;value&gt;</syntax>
606                <syntax>set -del &lt;variable&gt;</syntax>
607
608                <description>
609
610                        <para>
611                                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.
612                        </para>
613
614                        <para>
615                                To get more help information about a setting, try:
616                        </para>
617
618                </description>
619
620                <ircexample>
621                        <ircline nick="ctrlsoft">help set private</ircline>
622                </ircexample>
623
624        </bitlbee-command>
625
626        <bitlbee-command name="help">
627                <short-description>BitlBee help system</short-description>
628
629                <syntax>help [subject]</syntax>
630
631                <description>
632                        <para>
633                                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.
634                        </para>
635                </description>
636        </bitlbee-command>
637
638        <bitlbee-command name="save">
639                <short-description>Save your account data</short-description>
640                <syntax>save</syntax>
641
642                <description>
643                        <para>
644                                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... ;-)
645                        </para>
646                </description>
647        </bitlbee-command>
648
649        <bitlbee-setting name="account" type="string" scope="channel">
650
651                <description>
652                        <para>
653                                For control channels with <emphasis>fill_by</emphasis> set to <emphasis>account</emphasis>: Set this setting to the account id (numeric, or part of the username) of the account containing the contacts you want to see in this channel.
654                        </para>
655                </description>
656        </bitlbee-setting>
657
658        <bitlbee-setting name="allow_takeover" type="boolean" scope="global">
659                <default>true</default>
660
661                <description>
662                        <para>
663                                When you're already connected to a BitlBee server and you connect (and identify) again, BitlBee will offer to migrate your existing session to the new connection. If for whatever reason you don't want this, you can disable this setting.
664                        </para>
665                </description>
666        </bitlbee-setting>
667
668        <bitlbee-setting name="always_use_nicks" type="boolean" scope="channel">
669                <default>false</default>
670
671                <description>
672                        <para>
673                                Jabber groupchat specific. This setting ensures that the nicks defined by the other members of a groupchat are used, instead of the username part of their JID. This only applies to groupchats where their real JID is known (either "non-anonymous" ones, or "semi-anonymous" from the point of view of the channel moderators)
674                        </para>
675
676                        <para>
677                                Enabling this may have the side effect of changing the nick of existing contacts, either in your buddy list or in other groupchats. If a contact is in multiple groupchats with different nicks, enabling this setting for all those would result in multiple nick changes when joining, and the order of those changes may vary.
678                        </para>
679
680                        <para>
681                                Note that manual nick changes done through the <emphasis>rename</emphasis> command always take priority
682                        </para>
683                </description>
684        </bitlbee-setting>
685
686        <bitlbee-setting name="auto_connect" type="boolean" scope="account,global">
687                <default>true</default>
688
689                <description>
690                        <para>
691                                With this option enabled, when you identify BitlBee will automatically connect to your accounts, with this disabled it will not do this.
692                        </para>
693                       
694                        <para>
695                                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!)
696                        </para>
697                </description>
698        </bitlbee-setting>
699
700        <bitlbee-setting name="auto_join" type="boolean" scope="channel">
701                <default>false</default>
702
703                <description>
704                        <para>
705                                With this option enabled, BitlBee will automatically join this channel when you log in.
706                        </para>
707                </description>
708        </bitlbee-setting>
709
710        <bitlbee-setting name="auto_reconnect" type="boolean" scope="account,global">
711                <default>true</default>
712
713                <description>
714                        <para>
715                                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.
716                        </para>
717
718                        <para>
719                                See also the <emphasis>auto_reconnect_delay</emphasis> setting.
720                        </para>
721
722                        <para>
723                                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!)
724                        </para>
725                </description>
726        </bitlbee-setting>
727
728        <bitlbee-setting name="auto_reconnect_delay" type="string" scope="global">
729                <default>5*3&lt;900</default>
730
731                <description>
732                        <para>
733                                Tell BitlBee after how many seconds it should attempt to bring a broken IM-connection back up.
734                        </para>
735
736                        <para>
737                                This can be one integer, for a constant delay. One can also set it to something like &quot;10*10&quot;, which means wait for ten seconds on the first reconnect, multiply it by ten on every failure. Once successfully connected, this delay is re-set to the initial value. With &lt; you can give a maximum delay.
738                        </para>
739
740                        <para>
741                                See also the <emphasis>auto_reconnect</emphasis> setting.
742                        </para>
743                </description>
744        </bitlbee-setting>
745
746        <bitlbee-setting name="auto_reply_timeout" type="integer" scope="account">
747                <default>10800</default>
748
749                <description>
750                        <para>
751                                For Twitter accounts: If you respond to Tweets IRC-style (like "nickname: reply"), this will automatically be converted to the usual Twitter format ("@screenname reply").
752                        </para>
753
754                        <para>
755                                By default, BitlBee will then also add a reference to that person's most recent Tweet, unless that message is older than the value of this setting in seconds.
756                        </para>
757
758                        <para>
759                                If you want to disable this feature, just set this to 0. Alternatively, if you want to write a message once that is <emphasis>not</emphasis> a reply, use the Twitter reply syntax (@screenname).
760                        </para>
761                </description>
762        </bitlbee-setting>
763
764        <bitlbee-setting name="away" type="string" scope="account,global">
765                <description>
766                        <para>
767                                To mark yourself as away, it is recommended to just use <emphasis>/away</emphasis>, like on normal IRC networks. If you want to mark yourself as away on only one IM network, you can use this per-account setting.
768                        </para>
769
770                        <para>
771                                You can set it to any value and BitlBee will try to map it to the most appropriate away state for every open IM connection, or set it as a free-form away message where possible.
772                        </para>
773
774                        <para>
775                                Any per-account away setting will override globally set away states. To un-set the setting, use <emphasis>set -del away</emphasis>.
776                        </para>
777                </description>
778        </bitlbee-setting>
779
780        <bitlbee-setting name="away_devoice" type="boolean" scope="global">
781                <default>true</default>
782
783                <description>
784                        <para>
785                                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.
786                        </para>
787                       
788                        <para>
789                                Replaced with the <emphasis>show_users</emphasis> setting. See <emphasis>help show_users</emphasis>.
790                        </para>
791                </description>
792        </bitlbee-setting>
793
794        <bitlbee-setting name="away_reply_timeout" type="integer" scope="global">
795                <default>3600</default>
796
797                <description>
798                        <para>
799                                Most IRC servers send a user's away message every time s/he gets a private message, to inform the sender that they may not get a response immediately. With this setting set to 0, BitlBee will also behave like this.
800                        </para>
801
802                        <para>
803                                Since not all IRC clients do an excellent job at suppressing these messages, this setting lets BitlBee do it instead. BitlBee will wait this many seconds (or until the away state/message changes) before re-informing you that the person's away.
804                        </para>
805                </description>
806        </bitlbee-setting>
807
808        <bitlbee-setting name="base_url" type="string" scope="account">
809                <default>http://api.twitter.com/1</default>
810
811                <description>
812                        <para>
813                                There are more services that understand the Twitter API than just Twitter.com. BitlBee can connect to all Twitter API implementations.
814                        </para>
815
816                        <para>
817                                For example, set this setting to <emphasis>http://identi.ca/api</emphasis> to use Identi.ca.
818                        </para>
819
820                        <para>
821                                Keep two things in mind: When not using Twitter, you <emphasis>must</emphasis> also disable the <emphasis>oauth</emphasis> setting as it currently only works with Twitter. If you're still having issues, make sure there is <emphasis>no</emphasis> slash at the end of the URL you enter here.
822                        </para>
823                </description>
824        </bitlbee-setting>
825
826        <bitlbee-setting name="carbons" type="boolean" scope="account">
827                <default>true</default>
828
829                <description>
830                        <para>
831                                Jabber specific. "Message carbons" (XEP-0280) is a server feature to get copies of outgoing messages sent from other clients connected to the same account. It's not widely supported by most public XMPP servers (easier if you host your own), but this will probably change in the next few years.
832                        </para>
833                        <para>
834                                This defaults to true, which will enable it if the server supports it, or fail silently if it's not. This setting only exists to allow disabling the feature if anyone considers it undesirable.
835                        </para>
836                        <para>
837                                See also the <emphasis>self_messages</emphasis> setting.
838                        </para>
839                </description>
840        </bitlbee-setting>
841
842        <bitlbee-setting name="charset" type="string" scope="global">
843                <default>utf-8</default>
844                <possible-values>you can get a list of all possible values by doing 'iconv -l' in a shell</possible-values>
845
846                <description>
847                        <para>
848                                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.
849                        </para>
850
851                        <para>
852                                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
853                        </para>
854                </description>
855
856        </bitlbee-setting>
857
858        <bitlbee-setting name="color_encrypted" type="boolean" scope="global">
859                <default>true</default>
860
861                <description>
862                        <para>
863                                If set to true, BitlBee will color incoming encrypted messages according to their fingerprint trust level: untrusted=red, trusted=green.
864                        </para>
865                </description>
866        </bitlbee-setting>
867
868        <bitlbee-setting name="chat_type" type="string" scope="channel">
869                <default>groupchat</default>
870                <possible-values>groupchat, room</possible-values>
871
872                <description>
873                        <para>
874                                There are two kinds of chat channels: simple groupchats (basically normal IM chats with more than two participants) and names chatrooms, more similar to IRC channels.
875                        </para>
876                       
877                        <para>
878                                BitlBee supports both types. With this setting set to <emphasis>groupchat</emphasis> (the default), you can just invite people into the room and start talking.
879                        </para>
880                       
881                        <para>
882                                For setting up named chatrooms, it's currently easier to just use the <emphasis>chat add</emphasis> command.
883                        </para>
884                </description>
885        </bitlbee-setting>
886
887        <bitlbee-setting name="commands" type="boolean" scope="account">
888                <default>true</default>
889                <possible-values>true, false, strict</possible-values>
890
891                <description>
892                        <para>
893                                With this setting enabled, you can use some commands in your Twitter channel/query. See <emphasis>help twitter</emphasis> for the list of extra commands available.
894                        </para>
895                </description>
896        </bitlbee-setting>
897
898        <bitlbee-setting name="debug" type="boolean" scope="global">
899                <default>false</default>
900
901                <description>
902                        <para>
903                                Some debugging messages can be logged if you wish. They're probably not really useful for you, unless you're doing some development on BitlBee.
904                        </para>
905                       
906                        <para>
907                                This feature is not currently used for anything so don't expect this to generate any output.
908                        </para>
909                </description>
910        </bitlbee-setting>
911
912        <bitlbee-setting name="default_target" type="string" scope="global">
913                <default>root</default>
914                <possible-values>root, last</possible-values>
915
916                <description>
917                        <para>
918                                With this value set to <emphasis>root</emphasis>, lines written in a 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 that control channel, set this to <emphasis>last</emphasis>.
919                        </para>
920                </description>
921        </bitlbee-setting>
922
923        <bitlbee-setting name="display_name" type="string" scope="account">
924                <description>
925                        <para>
926                                Currently only available for MSN connections, and for jabber groupchats.
927                        </para>
928                        <para>
929                                For MSN: 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.
930                        </para>
931                        <para>
932                                For jabber groupchats: this sets the default value of 'nick' for newly created groupchats. There is no way to set an account-wide nick like MSN.
933                        </para>
934                </description>
935        </bitlbee-setting>
936
937        <bitlbee-setting name="display_namechanges" type="boolean" scope="global">
938                <default>false</default>
939
940                <description>
941                        <para>
942                                With this option enabled, root will inform you when someone in your buddy list changes his/her "friendly name".
943                        </para>
944                </description>
945        </bitlbee-setting>
946
947        <bitlbee-setting name="display_timestamps" type="boolean" scope="global">
948                <default>true</default>
949
950                <description>
951                        <para>
952                                When incoming messages are old (i.e. offline messages and channel backlogs), BitlBee will prepend them with a timestamp. If you find them ugly or useless, you can use this setting to hide them.
953                        </para>
954                </description>
955        </bitlbee-setting>
956
957        <bitlbee-setting name="fill_by" type="string" scope="channel">
958                <default>all</default>
959                <possible-values>all, group, account, protocol</possible-values>
960
961                <description>
962                        <para>
963                                For control channels only: This setting determines which contacts the channel gets populated with.
964                        </para>
965
966                        <para>
967                                By default, control channels will contain all your contacts. You instead select contacts by buddy group, IM account or IM protocol.
968                        </para>
969                       
970                        <para>
971                                Change this setting and the corresponding <emphasis>account</emphasis>/<emphasis>group</emphasis>/<emphasis>protocol</emphasis> setting to set up this selection.
972                        </para>
973                       
974                        <para>
975                                With a ! prefix an inverted channel can be created, for example with this setting set to <emphasis>!group</emphasis> you can create a channel with all users <emphasis>not</emphasis> in that group.
976                        </para>
977                       
978                        <para>
979                                Note that, when creating a new channel, BitlBee will try to preconfigure the channel for you, based on the channel name. See <emphasis>help channels</emphasis>.
980                        </para>
981                </description>
982        </bitlbee-setting>
983
984        <bitlbee-setting name="group" type="string" scope="channel">
985
986                <description>
987                        <para>
988                                For control channels with <emphasis>fill_by</emphasis> set to <emphasis>group</emphasis>: Set this setting to the name of the group containing the contacts you want to see in this channel.
989                        </para>
990                </description>
991        </bitlbee-setting>
992
993        <bitlbee-setting name="handle_unknown" type="string" scope="account,global">
994                <default>add_channel</default>
995                <possible-values>add_private, add_channel, ignore</possible-values>
996
997                <description>
998                        <para>
999                                By default, messages from people who aren't in your contact list are shown in a control channel (add_channel) instead of as a private message (add_private)
1000                        </para>
1001
1002                        <para>
1003                                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.
1004                        </para>
1005
1006                        <para>
1007                                This can be set to individual accounts, which is useful to only ignore accounts that are targeted by spammers, without missing messages from legitimate unknown contacts in others. Note that incoming add requests are visible regardless of this setting.
1008                        </para>
1009
1010                        <note>
1011                                <para>
1012                                        Although these users will appear in your control channel, they aren't added to your real contact list. When you restart BitlBee, these auto-added users will be gone. If you want to keep someone in your list, you have to fixate the add using the <emphasis>add</emphasis> command.
1013                                </para>
1014                        </note>
1015                </description>
1016
1017        </bitlbee-setting>
1018
1019        <bitlbee-setting name="ignore_auth_requests" type="boolean" scope="account">
1020                <default>false</default>
1021
1022                <description>
1023                        <para>
1024                                Only supported by OSCAR so far, you can use this setting to ignore ICQ authorization requests, which are hardly used for legitimate (i.e. non-spam) reasons anymore.
1025                        </para>
1026                </description>
1027
1028        </bitlbee-setting>
1029
1030        <bitlbee-setting name="local_display_name" type="boolean" scope="account">
1031                <default>false</default>
1032
1033                <description>
1034                        <para>
1035                                Mostly meant to work around a bug in MSN servers (forgetting the display name set by the user), this setting tells BitlBee to store your display name locally and set this name on the MSN servers when connecting.
1036                        </para>
1037                </description>
1038
1039        </bitlbee-setting>
1040
1041        <bitlbee-setting name="mail_notifications" type="boolean" scope="account">
1042                <default>false</default>
1043
1044                <description>
1045                        <para>
1046                                Some protocols can notify via IM about new e-mail. If you want these notifications, you can enable this setting.
1047                        </para>
1048                </description>
1049
1050        </bitlbee-setting>
1051
1052        <bitlbee-setting name="mail_notifications_handle" type="string" scope="account">
1053                <default>empty</default>
1054
1055                <description>
1056                        <para>
1057                                This setting is available for protocols with e-mail notification functionality. If set to empty all e-mail notifications will go to control channel, if set to some string - this will be the name of a contact who will PRIVMSG you on every new notification.
1058                        </para>
1059                </description>
1060
1061        </bitlbee-setting>
1062
1063        <bitlbee-setting name="message_length" type="integer" scope="account">
1064                <default>140</default>
1065
1066                <description>
1067                        <para>
1068                                Since Twitter rejects messages longer than 140 characters, BitlBee can count message length and emit a warning instead of waiting for Twitter to reject it.
1069                        </para>
1070
1071                        <para>
1072                                You can change this limit here but this won't disable length checks on Twitter's side. You can also set it to 0 to disable the check in case you believe BitlBee doesn't count the characters correctly.
1073                        </para>
1074                </description>
1075
1076        </bitlbee-setting>
1077
1078        <bitlbee-setting name="stream" type="boolean" scope="account">
1079                <default>true</default>
1080
1081                <description>
1082                        <para>
1083                                For Twitter accounts, this setting enables use of the Streaming API. This automatically gives you incoming DMs as well.
1084                        </para>
1085                       
1086                        <para>
1087                                For other Twitter-like services, this setting is not supported.
1088                        </para>
1089                </description>
1090
1091        </bitlbee-setting>
1092       
1093        <bitlbee-setting name="target_url_length" type="integer" scope="account">
1094                <default>20</default>
1095
1096                <description>
1097                        <para>
1098                                Twitter replaces every URL with fixed-length t.co URLs. BitlBee is able to take t.co urls into account when calculating <emphasis>message_length</emphasis> replacing the actual URL length with target_url_length. Setting target_url_length to 0 disables this feature.
1099                        </para>
1100
1101                        <para>
1102                                This setting is disabled for identica accounts by default and will not affect anything other than message safety checks (i.e. Twitter will still replace your URLs with t.co links, even if that makes them longer).
1103                        </para>
1104                </description>
1105
1106        </bitlbee-setting>
1107
1108        <bitlbee-setting name="mode" type="string" scope="account">
1109                <possible-values>one, many, chat</possible-values>
1110                <default>chat</default>
1111
1112                <description>
1113                        <para>
1114                                By default, BitlBee will create a separate channel (called #twitter_yourusername) for all your Twitter contacts/messages.
1115                        </para>
1116
1117                        <para>
1118                                If you don't want an extra channel, you can set this setting to "one" (everything will come from one nick, twitter_yourusername), or to "many" (individual nicks for everyone).
1119                        </para>
1120                       
1121                        <para>
1122                                With modes "chat" and "many", you can send direct messages by /msg'ing your contacts directly. Incoming DMs are only fetched if the "stream" setting is on (default).
1123                        </para>
1124                       
1125                        <para>
1126                                With modes "many" and "one", you can post tweets by /msg'ing the twitter_yourusername contact. In mode "chat", messages posted in the Twitter channel will also be posted as tweets.
1127                        </para>
1128                </description>
1129
1130        </bitlbee-setting>
1131
1132        <bitlbee-setting name="mobile_is_away" type="boolean" scope="global">
1133                <default>false</default>
1134
1135                <description>
1136                        <para>
1137                                Most IM networks have a mobile version of their client. People who use these may not be paying that much attention to messages coming in. By enabling this setting, people using mobile clients will always be shown as away.
1138                        </para>
1139                </description>
1140
1141        </bitlbee-setting>
1142
1143        <bitlbee-setting name="nick" type="string" scope="chat">
1144                <description>
1145                        <para>
1146                                You can use this option to set your nickname in a chatroom. You won't see this nickname yourself, but other people in the room will. By default, BitlBee will use your username as the chatroom nickname.
1147                        </para>
1148                </description>
1149        </bitlbee-setting>
1150
1151        <bitlbee-setting name="nick_format" type="string" scope="account,global">
1152                <default>%-@nick</default>
1153
1154                <description>
1155                        <para>
1156                                By default, BitlBee tries to derive sensible nicknames for all your contacts from their IM handles. In some cases, IM modules (ICQ for example) will provide a nickname suggestion, which will then be used instead. This setting lets you change this behaviour.
1157                        </para>
1158
1159                        <para>
1160                                Whenever this setting is set for an account, it will be used for all its contacts. If it's not set, the global value will be used.
1161                        </para>
1162
1163                        <para>
1164                                It's easier to describe this setting using a few examples:
1165                        </para>
1166
1167                        <para>
1168                                FB-%full_name will make all nicknames start with "FB-", followed by the person's full name. For example you can set this format for your Facebook account so all Facebook contacts are clearly marked.
1169                        </para>
1170
1171                        <para>
1172                                [%group]%-@nick will make all nicknames start with the group the contact is in between square brackets, followed by the nickname suggestions from the IM module if available, or otherwise the handle. Because of the "-@" part, everything from the first @ will be stripped.
1173                        </para>
1174
1175                        <para>
1176                                See <emphasis>help nick_format</emphasis> for more information.
1177                        </para>
1178                </description>
1179        </bitlbee-setting>
1180
1181        <bitlbee-setting name="nick_source" type="string" scope="account">
1182                <default>handle</default>
1183                <possible-values>handle, full_name, first_name</possible-values>
1184
1185                <description>
1186                        <para>
1187                                By default, BitlBee generates a nickname for every contact by taking its handle and chopping off everything after the @. In some cases, this gives very inconvenient nicknames. Some servers use internal identifiers, which are often just numbers.
1188                        </para>
1189
1190                        <para>
1191                                With this setting set to <emphasis>full_name</emphasis>, the person's full name is used to generate a nickname. Or if you don't like long nicknames, set this setting to <emphasis>first_name</emphasis> instead and only the first word will be used. Note that the full name can be full of non-ASCII characters which will be stripped off.
1192                        </para>
1193                </description>
1194        </bitlbee-setting>
1195
1196        <bitlbee-setting name="nick_lowercase" type="boolean" scope="global">
1197                <default>true</default>
1198
1199                <description>
1200                        <para>
1201                                If enabled, all nicknames are turned into lower case.
1202                        </para>
1203
1204                        <para>
1205                                See also the <emphasis>nick_underscores</emphasis> setting. This setting was previously known as <emphasis>lcnicks</emphasis>.
1206                        </para>
1207                </description>
1208
1209        </bitlbee-setting>
1210
1211        <bitlbee-setting name="nick_underscores" type="boolean" scope="global">
1212                <default>true</default>
1213
1214                <description>
1215                        <para>
1216                                If enabled, spaces in nicknames are turned into underscores instead of being stripped.
1217                        </para>
1218
1219                        <para>
1220                                See also the <emphasis>nick_lowercase</emphasis> setting.
1221                        </para>
1222                </description>
1223
1224        </bitlbee-setting>
1225
1226        <bitlbee-setting name="oauth" type="boolean" scope="account">
1227                <default>true</default>
1228
1229                <description>
1230                        <para>
1231                                This enables OAuth authentication for an IM account; right now the Twitter (working for Twitter only) and Jabber (for Google Talk only) module support it.
1232                        </para>
1233
1234                        <para>
1235                                With OAuth enabled, you shouldn't tell BitlBee your account password. Just add your account with a bogus password and type <emphasis>account on</emphasis>. BitlBee will then give you a URL to authenticate with the service. If this succeeds, you will get a PIN code which you can give back to BitlBee to finish the process.
1236                        </para>
1237
1238                        <para>
1239                                The resulting access token will be saved permanently, so you have to do this only once. If for any reason you want to/have to reauthenticate, you can use <emphasis>account set</emphasis> to reset the account password to something random.
1240                        </para>
1241                </description>
1242
1243        </bitlbee-setting>
1244
1245        <bitlbee-setting name="anonymous" type="boolean" scope="account">
1246                <default>false</default>
1247
1248                <description>
1249                        <para>
1250                                This enables SASL ANONYMOUS login for jabber accounts, as specified by XEP-0175.
1251                        </para>
1252
1253                        <para>
1254                                With this setting enabled, if the server allows this method, a password isn't required and the username part of the JID is ignored (you can use anonymous@jabber.example.com). Servers will usually assign you a random numeric username instead.
1255                        </para>
1256                </description>
1257
1258        </bitlbee-setting>
1259
1260        <bitlbee-setting name="ops" type="string" scope="global">
1261                <default>both</default>
1262                <possible-values>both, root, user, none</possible-values>
1263
1264                <description>
1265                        <para>
1266                                Some people prefer themself and root to have operator status in &amp;bitlbee, other people don't. You can change these states using this setting.
1267                        </para>
1268
1269                        <para>
1270                                The value "both" means both user and root get ops. "root" means, well, just root. "user" means just the user. "none" means nobody will get operator status.
1271                        </para>
1272                </description>
1273        </bitlbee-setting>
1274
1275        <bitlbee-setting name="otr_policy" type="string" scope="global">
1276                <default>opportunistic</default>
1277                <possible-values>never, opportunistic, manual, always</possible-values>
1278
1279                <description>
1280                        <para>
1281                                This setting controls the policy for establishing Off-the-Record connections.
1282                        </para>
1283                        <para>
1284                                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.
1285                        </para>
1286                </description>
1287        </bitlbee-setting>
1288
1289        <bitlbee-setting name="password" type="string" scope="account,global">
1290                <description>
1291                        <para>
1292                                Use this global setting to change your "NickServ" password.
1293                        </para>
1294                       
1295                        <para>
1296                                This setting is also available for all IM accounts to change the password BitlBee uses to connect to the service.
1297                        </para>
1298                       
1299                        <para>
1300                                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.
1301                        </para>
1302                </description>
1303        </bitlbee-setting>
1304
1305        <bitlbee-setting name="paste_buffer" type="boolean" scope="global">
1306                <default>false</default>
1307
1308                <description>
1309                        <para>
1310                                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.
1311                        </para>
1312
1313                        <para>
1314                                Using the <emphasis>paste_buffer_delay</emphasis> setting you can specify the number of seconds BitlBee should wait for more data before the complete message is sent.
1315                        </para>
1316
1317                        <para>
1318                                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.
1319                        </para>
1320                </description>
1321        </bitlbee-setting>
1322
1323        <bitlbee-setting name="paste_buffer_delay" type="integer" scope="global">
1324                <default>200</default>
1325
1326                <description>
1327
1328                        <para>
1329                                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.
1330                        </para>
1331
1332                        <para>
1333                                See also the <emphasis>paste_buffer</emphasis> setting.
1334                        </para>
1335                </description>
1336        </bitlbee-setting>
1337       
1338        <bitlbee-setting name="port" type="integer" scope="account">
1339                <description>
1340                        <para>
1341                                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.
1342                        </para>
1343                </description>
1344        </bitlbee-setting>
1345
1346        <bitlbee-setting name="priority" type="integer" scope="account">
1347                <default>0</default>
1348
1349                <description>
1350                        <para>
1351                                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).
1352                        </para>
1353
1354                        <para>
1355                                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).
1356                        </para>
1357                </description>
1358        </bitlbee-setting>
1359
1360        <bitlbee-setting name="private" type="boolean" scope="global">
1361                <default>true</default>
1362
1363                <description>
1364                        <para>
1365                                If value is true, messages from users will appear in separate query windows. If false, messages from users will appear in a control channel.
1366                        </para>
1367
1368                        <para>
1369                                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.
1370                        </para>
1371                </description>
1372        </bitlbee-setting>
1373
1374        <bitlbee-setting name="protocol" type="string" scope="channel">
1375
1376                <description>
1377                        <para>
1378                                For control channels with <emphasis>fill_by</emphasis> set to <emphasis>protocol</emphasis>: Set this setting to the name of the IM protocol of all contacts you want to see in this channel.
1379                        </para>
1380                </description>
1381        </bitlbee-setting>
1382
1383        <bitlbee-setting name="proxy" type="string" scope="account">
1384                <default>&lt;local&gt;&lt;auto&gt;</default>
1385
1386                <description>
1387                        <para>
1388                                A list of <emphasis>file transfer proxies</emphasis> for jabber. This isn't the connection proxy. Sorry, look in bitlbee.conf for those.
1389                        </para>
1390
1391                        <para>
1392                                It's a semicolon-separated list of items that can be either <emphasis>JID,HOST,PORT</emphasis> or two special values, <emphasis>&lt;local&gt;</emphasis> (to try a direct connection first) and <emphasis>&lt;auto&gt;</emphasis> (to try to discover a proxy). For example, "&lt;local&gt;;proxy.somewhere.org,123.123.123.123,7777".
1393                        </para>
1394                        <para>
1395                                The address should point to a SOCKS5 bytestreams server, usually provided by jabber servers. This is only used for sending files. Note that the host address might not match what DNS tells you, and the port isn't always the same.
1396                        </para>
1397                        <para>
1398                                The correct way to get a socks proxy host/port is a mystery, and the file transfer might fail anyway. Maybe just try using dropbox instead.
1399                        </para>
1400                </description>
1401        </bitlbee-setting>
1402
1403        <bitlbee-setting name="query_order" type="string" scope="global">
1404                <default>lifo</default>
1405                <possible-values>lifo, fifo</possible-values>
1406
1407                <description>
1408                        <para>
1409                                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.
1410                        </para>
1411
1412                        <para>
1413                                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).
1414                        </para>
1415                </description>
1416        </bitlbee-setting>
1417
1418        <bitlbee-setting name="resource" type="string" scope="account">
1419                <default>BitlBee</default>
1420
1421                <description>
1422                        <para>
1423                                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.
1424                        </para>
1425                </description>
1426        </bitlbee-setting>
1427
1428        <bitlbee-setting name="resource_select" type="string" scope="account">
1429                <default>activity</default>
1430                <possible-values>priority, activity</possible-values>
1431
1432                <description>
1433                        <para>
1434                                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.
1435                        </para>
1436
1437                        <para>
1438                                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>activity</emphasis>, messages will be delivered to the resource that was last used to send you a message (or the resource that most recently connected).
1439                        </para>
1440                </description>
1441        </bitlbee-setting>
1442
1443        <bitlbee-setting name="root_nick" type="string" scope="global">
1444                <default>root</default>
1445
1446                <description>
1447                        <para>
1448                                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.
1449                        </para>
1450                </description>
1451        </bitlbee-setting>
1452
1453        <bitlbee-setting name="save_on_quit" type="boolean" scope="global">
1454                <default>true</default>
1455
1456                <description>
1457                        <para>
1458                                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.
1459                        </para>
1460                </description>
1461        </bitlbee-setting>
1462
1463        <bitlbee-setting name="self_messages" type="string" scope="global">
1464                <default>true</default>
1465                <possible-values>true, false, prefix, prefix_notice</possible-values>
1466
1467                <description>
1468                        <para>
1469                                Change this setting to customize how (or whether) to show self-messages, which are messages sent by yourself from other locations (for example, mobile clients), for IM protocols that support it.
1470                        </para>
1471
1472                        <para>
1473                                When this is set to "true", it will send those messages in the "standard" way, which is a PRIVMSG with source and target fields swapped.
1474                        </para>
1475                       
1476                        <para>
1477                                Since this isn't very well supported by some clients (the messages might appear in the wrong window), you can set it to "prefix" to show them as a normal message prefixed with "-> ", or use "prefix_notice" which is the same thing but with a NOTICE instead.
1478                        </para>
1479
1480                        <para>
1481                                You can also set it to "false" to disable these messages completely.
1482                        </para>
1483
1484                        <para>
1485                                This setting only applies to private messages. Self messages in groupchats are always shown, since they haven't caused issues in any clients so far.
1486                        </para>
1487
1488                        <para>
1489                                More information: <emphasis>https://wiki.bitlbee.org/SelfMessages</emphasis>
1490                        </para>
1491                </description>
1492        </bitlbee-setting>
1493
1494        <bitlbee-setting name="server" type="string" scope="account">
1495                <description>
1496                        <para>
1497                                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.
1498                        </para>
1499                </description>
1500        </bitlbee-setting>
1501
1502        <bitlbee-setting name="show_ids" type="boolean" scope="account">
1503                <default>true</default>
1504
1505                <description>
1506                        <para>
1507                                Enable this setting on a Twitter account to have BitlBee include a two-digit "id" in front of every message. This id can then be used for replies and retweets.
1508                        </para>
1509                </description>
1510        </bitlbee-setting>
1511
1512        <bitlbee-setting name="show_offline" type="boolean" scope="global">
1513                <default>false</default>
1514
1515                <description>
1516                        <para>
1517                                If enabled causes BitlBee to also show offline users in Channel. Online-users will get op, away-users voice and offline users none of both. This option takes effect as soon as you reconnect.
1518                        </para>
1519                       
1520                        <para>
1521                                Replaced with the <emphasis>show_users</emphasis> setting. See <emphasis>help show_users</emphasis>.
1522                        </para>
1523                </description>
1524        </bitlbee-setting>
1525
1526        <bitlbee-setting name="show_users" type="string" scope="channel">
1527                <default>online+,special%,away</default>
1528
1529                <description>
1530                        <para>
1531                                Comma-separated list of statuses of users you want in the channel,
1532                                and any modes they should have. The following statuses are currently
1533                                recognised: <emphasis>online</emphasis> (i.e. available, not
1534                                away), <emphasis>special</emphasis> (specific to the protocol),
1535                                <emphasis>away</emphasis>, and <emphasis>offline</emphasis>.
1536                        </para>
1537                       
1538                        <para>
1539                                If a status is followed by a valid channel mode character
1540                                (@, % or +), it will be given to users with that status.
1541                                For example, <emphasis>online@,special%,away+,offline</emphasis> 
1542                                will show all users in the channel. Online people will
1543                                have +o, people who are online but away will have +v,
1544                                and others will have no special modes.
1545                        </para>
1546                </description>
1547        </bitlbee-setting>
1548
1549        <bitlbee-setting name="simulate_netsplit" type="boolean" scope="global">
1550                <default>true</default>
1551
1552                <description>
1553                        <para>
1554                                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 channels window clean. If you don't like this (or if your IRC client doesn't support this) you can disable this setting.
1555                        </para>
1556                </description>
1557        </bitlbee-setting>
1558
1559        <bitlbee-setting name="ssl" type="boolean" scope="account">
1560                <default>false</default>
1561
1562                <description>
1563                        <para>
1564                                Currently only available for Jabber connections. Set this to true if you want to connect to the server on an SSL-enabled port (usually 5223).
1565                        </para>
1566
1567                        <para>
1568                                Please note that this method of establishing a secure connection to the server has long been deprecated. You are encouraged to look at the <emphasis>tls</emphasis> setting instead.
1569                        </para>
1570                </description>
1571        </bitlbee-setting>
1572
1573        <bitlbee-setting name="status" type="string" scope="account,global">
1574                <description>
1575                        <para>
1576                                Most IM protocols support status messages, similar to away messages. They can be used to indicate things like your location or activity, without showing up as away/busy.
1577                        </para>
1578
1579                        <para>
1580                                This setting can be used to set such a message. It will be available as a per-account setting for protocols that support it, and also as a global setting (which will then automatically be used for all protocols that support it).
1581                        </para>
1582
1583                        <para>
1584                                Away states set using <emphasis>/away</emphasis> or the <emphasis>away</emphasis> setting will override this setting. To clear the setting, use <emphasis>set -del status</emphasis>.
1585                        </para>
1586                </description>
1587        </bitlbee-setting>
1588
1589        <bitlbee-setting name="strip_html" type="boolean" scope="global">
1590                <default>true</default>
1591
1592                <description>
1593                        <para>
1594                                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.
1595                        </para>
1596                        <para>
1597                                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.
1598                        </para>
1599                </description>
1600        </bitlbee-setting>
1601
1602        <bitlbee-setting name="strip_newlines" type="boolean" scope="account">
1603                <default>false</default>
1604
1605                <description>
1606                        <para>
1607                                Turn on this flag to prevent tweets from spanning over multiple lines.
1608                        </para>
1609                </description>
1610        </bitlbee-setting>
1611
1612        <bitlbee-setting name="show_old_mentions" type="integer" scope="account">
1613                <default>20</default>
1614
1615                <description>
1616                        <para>
1617                                This setting specifies the number of old mentions to fetch on connection. Must be less or equal to 200. Setting it to 0 disables this feature.
1618                        </para>
1619                </description>
1620        </bitlbee-setting>
1621
1622        <bitlbee-setting name="switchboard_keepalives" type="boolean" scope="account">
1623                <default>false</default>
1624
1625                <description>
1626                        <para>
1627                                Turn on this flag if you have difficulties talking to offline/invisible contacts.
1628                        </para>
1629                       
1630                        <para>
1631                                With this setting enabled, BitlBee will send keepalives to MSN switchboards with offline/invisible contacts every twenty seconds. This should keep the server and client on the other side from shutting it down.
1632                        </para>
1633                       
1634                        <para>
1635                                This is useful because BitlBee doesn't support MSN offline messages yet and the MSN servers won't let the user reopen switchboards to offline users. Once offline messaging is supported, this flag might be removed.
1636                        </para>
1637                </description>
1638        </bitlbee-setting>
1639
1640        <bitlbee-setting name="tag" type="string" scope="account">
1641                <description>
1642                        <para>
1643                                For every account you have, you can set a tag you can use to uniquely identify that account. This tag can be used instead of the account number (or protocol name, or part of the screenname) when using commands like <emphasis>account</emphasis>, <emphasis>add</emphasis>, etc. You can't have two accounts with one and the same account tag.
1644                        </para>
1645
1646                        <para>
1647                                By default, it will be set to the name of the IM protocol. Once you add a second account on an IM network, a numeric suffix will be added, starting with 2.
1648                        </para>
1649                </description>
1650        </bitlbee-setting>
1651
1652        <bitlbee-setting name="timezone" type="string" scope="global">
1653                <default>local</default>
1654                <possible-values>local, utc, gmt, timezone-spec</possible-values>
1655
1656                <description>
1657                        <para>
1658                                If message timestamps are available for offline messages or chatroom backlogs, BitlBee will display them as part of the message. By default it will use the local timezone. If you're not in the same timezone as the BitlBee server, you can adjust the timestamps using this setting.
1659                        </para>
1660
1661                        <para>
1662                                Values local/utc/gmt should be self-explanatory. timezone-spec is a time offset in hours:minutes, for example: -8 for Pacific Standard Time, +2 for Central European Summer Time, +5:30 for Indian Standard Time.
1663                        </para>
1664                </description>
1665        </bitlbee-setting>
1666
1667        <bitlbee-setting name="tls" type="boolean" scope="account">
1668                <default>true</default>
1669
1670                <description>
1671                        <para>
1672                                By default (with this setting enabled), BitlBee will require Jabber servers to offer encryption via StartTLS and refuse to connect if they don't.
1673                        </para>
1674
1675                        <para>
1676                                If you set this to "try", BitlBee will use StartTLS only if it's offered. With the setting disabled, StartTLS support will be ignored and avoided entirely.
1677                        </para>
1678                </description>
1679        </bitlbee-setting>
1680
1681        <bitlbee-setting name="tls_verify" type="boolean" scope="account">
1682                <default>true</default>
1683
1684                <description>
1685                        <para>
1686                                Currently only available for Jabber connections in combination with the <emphasis>tls</emphasis> setting. Set this to <emphasis>true</emphasis> if you want BitlBee to strictly verify the server's certificate against a list of trusted certificate authorities.
1687                        </para>
1688
1689                        <para>
1690                                The hostname used in the certificate verification is the value of the <emphasis>server</emphasis> setting if the latter is nonempty and the domain of the username else. If you get a hostname related error when connecting to Google Talk with a username from the gmail.com or googlemail.com domain, please try to empty the <emphasis>server</emphasis> setting.
1691                        </para>
1692
1693                        <para>
1694                                Please note that no certificate verification is performed when the <emphasis>ssl</emphasis> setting is used, or when the <emphasis>CAfile</emphasis> setting in <emphasis>bitlbee.conf</emphasis> is not set.
1695                        </para>
1696                </description>
1697        </bitlbee-setting>
1698
1699        <bitlbee-setting name="to_char" type="string" scope="global">
1700                <default>": "</default>
1701
1702                <description>
1703                        <para>
1704                                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>.
1705                        </para>
1706
1707                        <para>
1708                                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.
1709                        </para>
1710                </description>
1711        </bitlbee-setting>
1712
1713        <bitlbee-setting name="translate_to_nicks" type="boolean" scope="channel">
1714                <default>true</default>
1715
1716                <description>
1717                        <para>
1718                                IRC's nickname namespace is quite limited compared to most IM protocols. Not any non-ASCII characters are allowed, in fact nicknames have to be mostly alpha-numeric. Also, BitlBee has to add underscores sometimes to avoid nickname collisions.
1719                        </para>
1720
1721                        <para>
1722                                While normally the BitlBee user is the only one seeing these names, they may be exposed to other chatroom participants for example when addressing someone in the channel (with or without tab completion). By default BitlBee will translate these stripped nicknames back to the original nick. If you don't want this, disable this setting.
1723                        </para>
1724                </description>
1725        </bitlbee-setting>
1726
1727        <bitlbee-setting name="type" type="string" scope="channel">
1728                <default>control</default>
1729                <possible-values>control, chat</possible-values>
1730
1731                <description>
1732                        <para>
1733                                BitlBee supports two kinds of channels: control channels (usually with a name starting with a &amp;) and chatroom channels (name usually starts with a #).
1734                        </para>
1735
1736                        <para>
1737                                See <emphasis>help channels</emphasis> for a full description of channel types in BitlBee.
1738                        </para>
1739                </description>
1740        </bitlbee-setting>
1741
1742        <bitlbee-setting name="typing_notice" type="boolean" scope="global">
1743                <default>false</default>
1744
1745                <description>
1746                        <para>
1747                                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.
1748                        </para>
1749                </description>
1750        </bitlbee-setting>
1751
1752        <bitlbee-setting name="user_agent" type="string" scope="account">
1753                <default>BitlBee</default>
1754
1755                <description>
1756                        <para>
1757                                Some Jabber servers are configured to only allow a few (or even just one) kinds of XMPP clients to connect to them.
1758                        </para>
1759                       
1760                        <para>
1761                                You can change this setting to make BitlBee present itself as a different client, so that you can still connect to these servers.
1762                        </para>
1763                </description>
1764        </bitlbee-setting>
1765
1766        <bitlbee-setting name="utf8_nicks" type="boolean" scope="global">
1767                <default>false</default>
1768
1769                <description>
1770                        <para>
1771                                Officially, IRC nicknames are restricted to ASCII. Recently some clients and servers started supporting Unicode nicknames though. To enable UTF-8 nickname support (contacts only) in BitlBee, enable this setting.
1772                        </para>
1773                       
1774                        <para>
1775                                To avoid confusing old clients, this setting is disabled by default. Be careful when you try it, and be prepared to be locked out of your BitlBee in case your client interacts poorly with UTF-8 nicknames.
1776                        </para>
1777                </description>
1778        </bitlbee-setting>
1779
1780        <bitlbee-setting name="web_aware" type="string" scope="account">
1781                <default>false</default>
1782
1783                <description>
1784                        <para>
1785                                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.
1786                        </para>
1787
1788                        <para>
1789                                Unless you really intend to use this feature somewhere (on forums or maybe a website), it's probably better to keep this setting disabled.
1790                        </para>
1791                </description>
1792        </bitlbee-setting>
1793
1794        <bitlbee-setting name="xmlconsole" type="boolean" scope="account">
1795                <default>false</default>
1796
1797                <description>
1798                        <para>
1799                                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.
1800                        </para>
1801                        <para>
1802                                If you want to enable this XML console permanently (and at login time already), you can set this setting.
1803                        </para>
1804                </description>
1805        </bitlbee-setting>
1806
1807        <bitlbee-command name="rename">
1808                <short-description>Rename (renick) a buddy</short-description>
1809                <syntax>rename &lt;oldnick&gt; &lt;newnick&gt;</syntax>
1810                <syntax>rename -del &lt;oldnick&gt;</syntax>
1811
1812                <description>
1813                        <para>
1814                                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).
1815                        </para>
1816                       
1817                        <para>
1818                                <emphasis>rename -del</emphasis> can be used to erase your manually set nickname for a contact and reset it to what was automatically generated.
1819                        </para>
1820                </description>
1821
1822                <ircexample>
1823                        <ircline nick="itsme">rename itsme_ you</ircline>
1824                        <ircaction nick="itsme_">is now known as <emphasis>you</emphasis></ircaction>
1825                </ircexample>
1826
1827        </bitlbee-command>
1828
1829        <bitlbee-command name="yes">
1830                <short-description>Accept a request</short-description>
1831                <syntax>yes [&lt;number&gt;]</syntax>
1832
1833                <description>
1834                        <para>
1835                                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.
1836                        </para>
1837
1838                        <para>
1839                                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.
1840                        </para>
1841                </description>
1842
1843        </bitlbee-command>
1844
1845        <bitlbee-command name="no">
1846                <short-description>Deny a request</short-description>
1847                <syntax>no [&lt;number&gt;]</syntax>
1848
1849                <description>
1850                        <para>
1851                                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.
1852                        </para>
1853
1854                        <para>
1855                                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.
1856                        </para>
1857                </description>
1858        </bitlbee-command>
1859
1860        <bitlbee-command name="plugins">
1861                <short-description>List all the external plugins and protocols</short-description>
1862                <syntax>plugins [info &lt;name&gt;]</syntax>
1863
1864                <description>
1865                        <para>
1866                                This gives you a list of all the external plugins and protocols.
1867                        </para>
1868
1869                        <para>
1870                                Use the <emphasis>info</emphasis> subcommand to get more details about a plugin.
1871                        </para>
1872                </description>
1873
1874        </bitlbee-command>
1875
1876        <bitlbee-command name="qlist">
1877                <short-description>List all the unanswered questions root asked</short-description>
1878                <syntax>qlist</syntax>
1879
1880                <description>
1881                        <para>
1882                                This gives you a list of all the unanswered questions from root.
1883                        </para>
1884                </description>
1885
1886        </bitlbee-command>
1887
1888        <bitlbee-command name="register">
1889                <short-description>Register yourself</short-description>
1890                <syntax>register [&lt;password&gt;]</syntax>
1891
1892                <description>
1893                        <para>
1894                                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.
1895                        </para>
1896
1897                        <para>
1898                                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.. ;-)
1899                        </para>
1900
1901                        <para>
1902                                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.
1903                        </para>
1904
1905                        <para>
1906                                You can omit the password and enter it separately using the IRC /OPER command. This lets you enter your password without your IRC client echoing it on screen or recording it in logs.
1907                        </para>
1908                </description>
1909
1910        </bitlbee-command>
1911
1912        <bitlbee-command name="identify">
1913                <syntax>identify [-noload|-force] [&lt;password&gt;]</syntax>
1914                <short-description>Identify yourself with your password</short-description>
1915
1916                <description>
1917                        <para>
1918                                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.
1919                        </para>
1920
1921                        <para>
1922                                Once you're registered, you can change your password using <emphasis>set password &lt;password&gt;</emphasis>.
1923                        </para>
1924
1925                        <para>
1926                                The <emphasis>-noload</emphasis> and <emphasis>-force</emphasis> flags can be used to identify when you're logged into some IM accounts already. <emphasis>-force</emphasis> will let you identify yourself and load all saved accounts (and keep the accounts you're logged into already).
1927                        </para>
1928                       
1929                        <para>
1930                                <emphasis>-noload</emphasis> will log you in but not load any accounts and settings saved under your current nickname. These will be overwritten once you save your settings (i.e. when you disconnect).
1931                        </para>
1932
1933                        <para>
1934                                You can omit the password and enter it separately using the IRC /OPER command. This lets you enter your password without your IRC client echoing it on screen or recording it in logs.
1935                        </para>
1936                </description>
1937        </bitlbee-command>
1938
1939        <bitlbee-command name="drop">
1940                <syntax>drop &lt;password&gt;</syntax>
1941                <short-description>Drop your account</short-description>
1942
1943                <description>
1944                        <para>
1945                                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.
1946                        </para>
1947                </description>
1948        </bitlbee-command>
1949
1950        <bitlbee-command name="blist">
1951                <syntax>blist [all|online|offline|away] [&lt;pattern&gt;]</syntax>
1952                <short-description>List all the buddies in the current channel</short-description>
1953
1954                <description>
1955                        <para>
1956                                You can get a more 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.
1957                        </para>
1958
1959                        <para>
1960                                A perl-compatible regular expression can be supplied as <emphasis>pattern</emphasis> to filter the results (case-insensitive).
1961                        </para>
1962                </description>
1963
1964        </bitlbee-command>
1965
1966        <bitlbee-command name="group">
1967                <short-description>Contact group management</short-description>
1968                <syntax>group [ list | info &lt;group&gt; ]</syntax>
1969
1970                <description>
1971                        <para>
1972                                The <emphasis>group list</emphasis> command shows a list of all groups defined so far.
1973                        </para>
1974                       
1975                        <para>
1976                                The <emphasis>group info</emphasis> command shows a list of all members of a the group &lt;group&gt;.
1977                        </para>
1978                       
1979                        <para>
1980                                If you want to move contacts between groups, you can use the IRC <emphasis>/invite</emphasis> command. Also, if you use the <emphasis>add</emphasis> command in a control channel configured to show just one group, the new contact will automatically be added to that group.
1981                        </para>
1982                </description>
1983        </bitlbee-command>
1984       
1985        <bitlbee-command name="transfer">
1986                <short-description>Monitor, cancel, or reject file transfers</short-description>
1987                <syntax>transfer [&lt;cancel&gt; id | &lt;reject&gt;]</syntax>
1988               
1989                <description>
1990                        <para>
1991                                Without parameters the currently pending file transfers and their status will be listed. Available actions are <emphasis>cancel</emphasis> and <emphasis>reject</emphasis>. See <emphasis>help transfer &lt;action&gt;</emphasis> for more information.
1992                        </para>
1993
1994                        <ircexample>
1995                                <ircline nick="ulim">transfer</ircline>
1996                        </ircexample>
1997                </description>
1998               
1999                <bitlbee-command name="cancel">
2000                        <short-description>Cancels the file transfer with the given id</short-description>
2001                        <syntax>transfer &lt;cancel&gt; id</syntax>
2002
2003                        <description>
2004                                <para>Cancels the file transfer with the given id</para>
2005                        </description>
2006
2007                        <ircexample>
2008                                <ircline nick="ulim">transfer cancel 1</ircline>
2009                                <ircline nick="root">Canceling file transfer for test</ircline>
2010                        </ircexample>
2011                </bitlbee-command>
2012
2013                <bitlbee-command name="reject">
2014                        <short-description>Rejects all incoming transfers</short-description>
2015                        <syntax>transfer &lt;reject&gt;</syntax>
2016
2017                        <description>
2018                                <para>Rejects all incoming (not already transferring) file transfers. Since you probably have only one incoming transfer at a time, no id is necessary. Or is it?</para>
2019                        </description>
2020
2021                        <ircexample>
2022                                <ircline nick="ulim">transfer reject</ircline>
2023                        </ircexample>
2024                </bitlbee-command>
2025        </bitlbee-command>
2026       
2027</chapter>
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