Changeset 85d7b85 for doc


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Timestamp:
2008-04-02T14:22:57Z (17 years ago)
Author:
Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer@…>
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  • doc/CHANGES

    r875ad42 r85d7b85  
     1Version 1.2.1:
     2- Fixed proxy support.
     3- Fixed stalling issues while connecting to Jabber when using the OpenSSL
     4  module.
     5- Fixed problem with GLib and ForkDaemon where processes didn't die when
     6  the client disconnects.
     7- Fixed handling of "set charset none". (Which pretty much breaks the account
     8  completely in 1.2.)
     9- You can now automatically identify yourself to BitlBee by setting a server
     10  password in your IRC client.
     11- Compatible with all crazy kinds of line endings that clients can send.
     12
     13Finished ...
     14
     15Version 1.2:
     16- Added ForkDaemon mode next to the existing Daemon- and inetd modes. With
     17  ForkDaemon you can run BitlBee as a stand-alone daemon and every connection
     18  will run in its own process. No more need to configure inetd, and still you
     19  don't get the stability problems BitlBee unfortunately still has in ordinary
     20  (one-process) daemon mode.
     21- Added inter-process/connection communication. This made it possible to
     22  implement some IRC operator features like WALLOPs, KILL, DIE, REHASH and
     23  more.
     24- Added hooks for using libevent instead of GLib for event handling. This
     25  should improve scalability, although this won't really be useful yet because
     26  the one-process daemon mode is not reliable enough.
     27- BitlBee now makes the buddy quits when doing "account off" look like a
     28  netsplit. Modern IRC clients show this in a different, more compact way.
     29  (This can be disabled if your client doesn't support this.)
     30- GLib 1.x compatibility was dropped. BitlBee now requires GLib 2.4 or newer.
     31  This allows us to use more GLib features (like the XML parser). By now GLib
     32  1.x is so old that supporting it really isn't necessary anymore.
     33- Many, many, MANY little changes, improvements, fixes. Using non-blocking
     34  I/O as much as possible, replaced the Gaim (0.59, IOW heavily outdated)
     35  API, fixed lots of little bugs (including bugs that affected daemon mode
     36  stability). See the bzr logs for more information.
     37- One of the user-visible changes from the API change: You can finally see
     38  all away states/messages properly.
     39- Added units tests. Test coverage is very minimal for now.
     40- Better charset handling: Everything is just converted from/to UTF-8 right
     41  in the IRC core, and charset mismatches are detected (if possible) and the
     42  user is asked to resolve this before continuing. Also, UTF-8 is the default
     43  setting now, since that's how the world seems to work these days.
     44- One can now keep hashed passwords in bitlbee.conf instead of the cleartext
     45  version.
     46- Most important change: New file format for user data (accounts, nicks and
     47  settings). Migration to the new format should happen transparently,
     48  BitlBee will read the old files and once you quit/save it will save in the
     49  new format. It is recommended to delete the old files (BitlBee doesn't do
     50  this automatically, it will just ignore them) since they won't be used
     51  anymore (and since the old file format is a security risk). Some advantages
     52  of this file format switch:
     53  * Safer format, since the identify-password is now salted before generating
     54    a checksum. This way one can't use MD5 reverse lookup databases to crack
     55    passwords. Also, the IM-account passwords are encrypted using RC4 instead
     56    of the simple obfuscation scheme which BitlBee used so far.
     57  * Easier to extend than the previous format (at least the .nicks format was
     58    horribly limited).
     59  * Nicknames for buddies are now saved per-account instead of per-protocol.
     60    So far having one buddy on multiple accounts of the same protocol was a
     61    problem because the nicks generated for the two "instances" of this buddy
     62    were very unpredictable.
     63    NOTE: This also means that "account del" removes not just the account,
     64    BUT ALSO ALL NICKNAMES! If you're changing IM accounts and don't want to
     65    lose the nicknames, you can now use "account set" to change the username
     66    and password for the existing connection.
     67  * Per-account settings (see the new "account set" command).
     68- A brand new Jabber module. Besides the major code cleanup, it also has
     69  has these new features:
     70  * Pretty complete XMPP support: RFC3920, RFC3921 plus a number of XEPs
     71    including XEP45, XEP73 and XEP85. (See http://www.xmpp.org/ for what all
     72    these things mean exactly.) Privacy lists are not supported for obvious
     73    reasons.
     74  * This complete support also includes TLS and SASL support and SRV record
     75    lookup. This means that specifying a server tag for connections should
     76    (almost) never be necessary anymore, BitlBee can find the server and can
     77    automatically convert plaintext connections to TLS-encrypted ones.
     78  * XEP45: Jabber chatroom support!
     79  * XEP85 means typing notifications. The older XEP22 (still used by some
     80    clients including Gaim <2.0) is not supported.
     81  * Better handling of buddies who have more than one resource on-line. As
     82    long as one resource is on-line (and visible), BitlBee will show this.
     83    (The previous module didn't keep track of resources and sent an offline
     84    event as soon as any resource disappears.)
     85  * You can now set your resource priority.
     86  * The info command now gives away state/message information for all
     87    resources available for that buddy. (Of course this only works if the
     88    buddy is in your contact list.)
     89  * An XML console (add xmlconsole to your contact list or see "help set
     90    xmlconsole" if you want it permanently).
     91- The Yahoo! module now says it supports YMSG protocol version 12, which will
     92  hopefully keep the Yahoo module working after 2008-04-02 (when Yahoo! is
     93  dropping support for version 6.x of their client).
     94- MSN switchboard handling changes. Hopefully less messages will get lost now,
     95  although things are still not perfect.
     96
     97Finished 17 Mar 2008
     98
     99Version 1.0.4:
     100- Removed sethostent(), which causes problems for many people, especially on
     101  *BSD. This is basically the reason for this release.
     102- "allow" command actually displays the allow list, not the block list.
     103- Yahoo away state/msg fix.
     104- Don't display "Gender: Male" by default if nothing's filled in (OSCAR
     105  "info" command)
     106- Fixed account cleanup (possible infinite loop) in irc_free().
     107- Fixed configdir error message to not always display the compile-time
     108  setting.
     109
     110Finished 20 Aug 2007
     111
     112Version 1.0.3:
     113- Fixed ugliness in block/allow list commands (still not perfect though, the
     114  list is empty or not up-to-date for most protocols).
     115- OSCAR module doesn't send the ICQ web-aware flag anymore, which seems to
     116  get rid of a lot of ICQ spam.
     117- added show_got_added(), BitlBee asks you, after authorizing someone, if you
     118  want to add him/her to your list too.
     119- add -tmp, mainly convenient if you want to talk to people who are not in
     120  your list.
     121- Fixed ISON command, should work better with irssi now.
     122- Fixed compilation with tcc.
     123- Fixed xinetd-file.
     124- Misc. (crash)bug fixes, including one in the root command parsing that
     125  caused mysterious error messages sometimes.
     126
     127Finished 24 Jun 2006 (Happy 4th birthday, BitlBee!)
     128
     129Version 1.0.2:
     130- Pieces of code cleanup, fixes for possible problems in error checking.
     131- Fixed an auto-reconnect cleanup problem that caused crashes in daemon mode.
     132- /AWAY in daemon mode now doesn't set the away state for every connection
     133  anymore.
     134- Fixed a crash-bug on empty help subjects.
     135- Jabber now correctly sets the current away state when connecting.
     136- Added Invisible and Hidden to the away state alias list, invisible mode
     137  should be pretty usable now.
     138- Fixed handling of iconv(): It's now done for everything that goes between
     139  BitlBee and the IRC client, instead of doing it (almost) every time
     140  something goes to or come from the IM-modules. Should've thought about
     141  that before. :-)
     142- When cleaning up MSN switchboards with unsent msgs, it now also says which
     143  contact those messages were meant for.
     144- You can now use the block and allow commands to see your current block/
     145  allow list.
     146
     147Finished 1 Apr 2006
     148
     149Version 1.0.1:
     150- Support for AIM groupchats.
     151- Improved typing notification support for at least AIM.
     152- BitlBee sends a 005 reply when logging in, this informs modern IRC clients
     153  of some of BitlBee's capabilities. This might also solve problems some
     154  people were having with the new control channel name.
     155- MSN switchboards are now properly reset when talking to a person who is
     156  offline. This fixes problems with messages to MSN people that sometimes
     157  didn't arrive.
     158- Fixed one of the problems that made BitlBee show online Jabber people as
     159  offline.
     160- Fixed problems with commas in MSN passwords.
     161- Added some consts for read-only data, which should make the BitlBee per-
     162  process memory footprint a bit smaller.
     163- Other bits of code cleanup.
     164
     165Finished 14 Jan 2006
     166
    1167Version 1.0:
    2168- Removed some crashy debugging code.
  • doc/CREDITS

    r875ad42 r85d7b85  
    5050- Frank Thieme, for the info-command enhancements and other patches.
    5151- Marcus Dennis, for some bitlbeed enhancements.
    52 - 1nfamus, for security auditing BitlBee code.
     52- infamous41md, for security auditing BitlBee code.
    5353- Tijmen Ruizendaal, for some useful BitlBee-related irssi scripts.
    5454- Ed Schouten, for reporting bugs.
     55- Greg (gropeep.org), for updating the Yahoo! module to fix some issues
     56  that were there for quite some time already.
     57- misc@mandriva.org for lots of Jabber contributions.
    5558
    5659- And all other users who help us by sending useful bug reports, positive
  • doc/README

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    4242directory is read-/writable by this user only.
    4343
     44--- (Fork)Daemon mode
     45
     46If you don't want to run any inetd daemon, you can run BitlBee in Daemon
     47mode. Right now, daemon mode may be a bad idea on servers with multiple
     48users, since possible fatal BitlBee bugs will crash the BitlBee process and
     49disconnect all connected users at once. Instead, you can use ForkDaemon
     50mode, which serves every user from a separate process, without depending on
     51an inetd daemon.
     52
     53To use BitlBee in daemon mode, just start it with the right flags or enable
     54it in bitlbee.conf. You probably want to write an init script to start
     55BitlBee automatically after a reboot. (This is where you realise using
     56a package from your distro would've been a better idea. :-P)
     57
    4458
    4559DEPENDENCIES
     
    4761
    4862BitlBee's only real dependency is GLib. This is available on virtually every
    49 platform. Any recent version of GLib (including 1.x versions) will work.
     63platform. Any recent version of GLib (2.4 or higher) will work.
    5064
    5165These days, MSN Messenger clients have to connect to the MS Passport servers
     
    155169====================
    156170
    157 BitlBee stores the accounts and settings (not your contact list though) in
    158 some sort of encrypted/obfuscated format.
    159 
    160 *** THIS IS NOT A SAFE FORMAT! ***
    161 
    162 You should still make sure the rights to the configuration directory and
    163 files are set so that only root and the BitlBee user can read/write them.
    164 
    165 This format is not to prevent malicicous users from running with your
    166 passwords, but to prevent accidental glimpses of the administrators to cause
    167 any harm. You have no choice but to trust root though.
     171There used to be a note here about the simple obfuscation method used to
     172make the passwords in the configuration files unreadable. However, BitlBee
     173now uses a better format (and real encryption (salted MD5 and RC4)) to store
     174the passwords. This means that people who somehow get their hands on your
     175configuration files can't easily extract your passwords from them anymore.
     176
     177However, once you log into the BitlBee server and send your password, an
     178intruder with tcpdump can still read your passwords. This can't really be
     179avoided, of course. The new format is a lot more reliable (because it can't
     180be cracked with just very basic crypto analysis anymore), but you still have
     181to be careful. The main extra protection offered by the new format is that
     182the files can only be cracked with some help from the user (by sending the
     183password at login time).
     184
     185So if you run a public server, it's most important that you don't give root
     186access to people who like to play with tcpdump. Also, it's a good idea to
     187delete all *.nicks/*.accounts files as soon as BitlBee converted them to the
     188new format (which happens as soon as the user logs in, it can't be done
     189automatically because it needs the password for that account). You won't
     190need them anymore (unless you want to switch back to an older BitlBee
     191version) and they only make it easier for others to crack your passwords.
    168192
    169193
     
    174198file COPYING for this license.
    175199
    176 Unfortunately some parts of the Gaim Jabber plugin (most notably the XML
    177 code) were licensed under the MPL (Mozilla Public License) version 1.1. We
    178 could not relicense this code under the GPL. As such it is still licensed
    179 under the MPL. The parts of the code to which this applies are marked as
    180 such.
    181 
    182 The MPL is provided in the file MPL-1.1.txt. This license is not GPL
    183 compatible. It is however a free software license.
    184 
    185 Another part (the md5 algorithm) is licensed under the Aladdin license.
    186 This license can be found in the files, to which this applies.
     200The MD5 algorithm code is licensed under the Aladdin license. This license
     201can be found in the files, to which this applies. The SHA1 algorithm code
     202is licensed under the Mozilla Public License, see http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/
     203for details.
    187204
    188205The Yahoo! library used by BitlBee is libyahoo2 <http://libyahoo2.sf.net/>,
     
    192209        BitlBee - An IRC to other chat networks gateway
    193210                  <http://www.bitlbee.org/>
    194         Copyright (C) 2002-2005  Wilmer van der Gaast <wilmer@gaast.net>
     211        Copyright (C) 2002-2007  Wilmer van der Gaast <wilmer@gaast.net>
    195212                                 and others
  • doc/bitlbee.8

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    6363waits for new connections. All clients will be served from one process.
    6464This is still experimental. See the note above for more information.
     65.IP "-F"
     66Run in ForkDaemon mode. This is similar to ordinary daemon mode, but every
     67client gets its own process. Easier to set up than inetd mode, but without
     68the possible stability issues.
    6569.IP "-i \fIaddress\fP"
    6670Only useful when running in daemon mode, to specify the network interface
  • doc/user-guide/Makefile

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    2828        xsltproc --xinclude --output $@ docbook.xsl $<
    2929
    30 help.txt: help.xml help.xsl
     30help.txt: help.xml help.xsl commands.xml misc.xml quickstart.xml
    3131        xsltproc --stringparam extraparanewline "$(EXTRAPARANEWLINE)" --xinclude help.xsl $< | perl -0077 -pe 's/\n\n%/\n%/s; s/_b_/\002/g;' > $@
    3232
  • doc/user-guide/Support.xml

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    44
    55<sect1>
    6 <title>BitlBee is beta software</title>
     6<title>Disclaimer</title>
    77
    88<para>
    9 Although BitlBee has quite some functionality it is still beta. That means it
    10 can crash at any time, corrupt your data or whatever. Don't use it in
    11 any production environment and don't rely on it.
     9BitlBee doesn't come with a warranty and is still (and will probably always
     10be) under development. That means it can crash at any time, corrupt your
     11data or whatever. Don't use it in any production environment and don't rely
     12on it, or at least don't blame us if things blow up. :-)
    1213</para>
    1314
  • doc/user-guide/commands.xml

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    1111
    1212                        <para>
    13                                 Available actions: add, del, list, on, off. See <emphasis>help account &lt;action&gt;</emphasis> for more information.
     13                                Available actions: add, del, list, on, off and set. See <emphasis>help account &lt;action&gt;</emphasis> for more information.
    1414                        </para>
    1515
     
    1717
    1818                <bitlbee-command name="add">
    19                         <syntax>account add &lt;protocol&gt; &lt;username&gt; &lt;password&gt; [&lt;server&gt;]</syntax>
     19                        <syntax>account add &lt;protocol&gt; &lt;username&gt; &lt;password&gt;</syntax>
    2020
    2121                        <description>
     
    2626                       
    2727                        <bitlbee-command name="jabber">
    28                                 <syntax>account add jabber &lt;handle&gt; &lt;password&gt; [&lt;servertag&gt;]</syntax>
     28                                <syntax>account add jabber &lt;handle@server.tld&gt; &lt;password&gt;</syntax>
    2929
    3030                                <description>
    3131                                        <para>
    32                                                 Note that the servertag argument is optional. You only have to use it if the part after the @ in your handle isn't the hostname of your Jabber server, or if you want to use SSL/connect to a non-standard port number. The format is simple: [&lt;servername&gt;[:&lt;portnumber&gt;][:ssl]]. For example, this is how you can connect to Google Talk:
     32                                                The handle should be a full handle, including the domain name. You can specify a servername if necessary. Normally BitlBee doesn't need this though, since it's able to find out the server by doing DNS SRV lookups.
    3333                                        </para>
    34                                 </description>
    35 
    36                                 <ircexample>
    37                                         <ircline nick="wilmer">account add jabber example@gmail.com hobbelmeeuw talk.google.com:5223:ssl</ircline>
    38                                         <ircline nick="root">Account successfully added</ircline>
    39                                 </ircexample>
    40 
    41                                 <description>
     34
    4235                                        <para>
    43                                                 Note that Google talk is SSL-only, but officially reachable over both port 5222 and 5223. However, for some people only port 5222 works, for some people only 5223. This is something you'll have to try out.
     36                                                In previous versions it was also possible to specify port numbers and/or SSL in the server tag. This is deprecated and should now be done using the <emphasis>account set</emphasis> command. This also applies to specifying a resource in the handle (like <emphasis>wilmer@bitlbee.org/work</emphasis>).
    4437                                        </para>
    4538                                </description>
     
    4740
    4841                        <bitlbee-command name="msn">
    49                                 <syntax>account add msn &lt;handle&gt; &lt;password&gt;</syntax>
     42                                <syntax>account add msn &lt;handle@server.tld&gt; &lt;password&gt;</syntax>
    5043
    5144                                <description>
     
    5750                       
    5851                        <bitlbee-command name="oscar">
    59                                 <syntax>account add oscar &lt;handle&gt; &lt;password&gt; [&lt;servername&gt;]</syntax>
     52                                <syntax>account add oscar &lt;handle&gt; &lt;password&gt;</syntax>
    6053
    6154                                <description>
    6255                                        <para>
    63                                                 Specifying a server is required for OSCAR, since OSCAR can be used for both ICQ- and AIM-connections. Although these days it's supposed to be possible to connect to ICQ via AIM-servers and vice versa, we like to stick with this separation for now. For ICQ connections, the servername is <emphasis>login.icq.com</emphasis>, for AIM connections it's <emphasis>login.oscar.aol.com</emphasis>.
     56                                                OSCAR is the protocol used to connect to AIM and/or ICQ. The servers will automatically detect if you're using a numeric or non-numeric username so there's no need to tell which network you want to connect to.
    6457                                        </para>
    6558                                </description>
    6659
    6760                                <ircexample>
    68                                         <ircline nick="wilmer">account add oscar 72696705 hobbelmeeuw login.icq.com</ircline>
     61                                        <ircline nick="wilmer">account add oscar 72696705 hobbelmeeuw</ircline>
    6962                                        <ircline nick="root">Account successfully added</ircline>
    7063                                </ircexample>
     
    10396                        <description>
    10497                                <para>
    105                                         This command will try to log into the specified account. If no account is specified, BitlBee will log into all the accounts. (Including accounts awaiting a reconnection)
     98                                        This command will try to log into the specified account. If no account is specified, BitlBee will log into all the accounts that have the auto_connect flag set.
    10699                                </para>
    107100
     
    118111                        <description>
    119112                                <para>
    120                                         This command disconnects the connection for the specified account. If no account is specified, BitlBee will deactivate all active accounts. (Including accounts awaiting a reconnection)
     113                                        This command disconnects the connection for the specified account. If no account is specified, BitlBee will deactivate all active accounts and cancel all pending reconnects.
    121114                                </para>
    122115
     
    133126                                <para>
    134127                                        This command gives you a list of all the accounts known by BitlBee, including the numbers you'll need for most account commands.
     128                                </para>
     129                        </description>
     130                </bitlbee-command>
     131
     132                <bitlbee-command name="set">
     133                        <syntax>account set &lt;account id&gt;</syntax>
     134                        <syntax>account set &lt;account id&gt;/&lt;setting&gt;</syntax>
     135                        <syntax>account set &lt;account id&gt;/&lt;setting&gt; &lt;value&gt;</syntax>
     136                        <syntax>account set -del &lt;account id&gt;/&lt;setting&gt;</syntax>
     137
     138                        <description>
     139                                <para>
     140                                        This account can be used to change various settings for IM accounts. For all protocols, this command can be used to change the handle or the password BitlBee uses to log in and if it should be logged in automatically. Some protocols have additional settings. You can see the settings available for a connection by typing <emphasis>account set &lt;account id&gt;</emphasis>.
     141                                </para>
     142                               
     143                                <para>
     144                                        For more infomation about a setting, see <emphasis>help set &lt;setting&gt;</emphasis>. For details about the syntax of this command, see <emphasis>help set</emphasis>.
     145                                </para>
     146                               
     147                                <para>
     148                                        The account ID can be a number (see <emphasis>account list</emphasis>), the protocol name or (part of) the screenname, as long as it matches only one connection.
    135149                                </para>
    136150                        </description>
     
    149163
    150164                        <para>
    151                                 If you want, you can also tell BitlBee what nick to give the new contact. Of course you can also use the <emphasis>rename</emphasis> command for that, but sometimes this might be more convenient.
    152                         </para>
    153                        
    154                         <para>
    155                                 Adding -tmp 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.
     165                                If you want, you can also tell BitlBee what nick to give the new contact. The -tmp option adds the buddy to the internal BitlBee structures only, not to the real contact list (like done by <emphasis>set handle_unknown add</emphasis>). This allows you to talk to people who are not in your contact list. This normally won't show you any presence notifications.
    156166                        </para>
    157167                </description>
     
    233243        <bitlbee-command name="set">
    234244                <short-description>Miscellaneous settings</short-description>
    235                 <syntax>set [&lt;variable&gt; [&lt;value&gt;]]</syntax>
    236 
    237                 <description>
    238 
    239                         <para>
    240                                 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.
     245                <syntax>set</syntax>
     246                <syntax>set &lt;variable&gt;</syntax>
     247                <syntax>set &lt;variable&gt; &lt;value&gt;</syntax>
     248                <syntax>set -del &lt;variable&gt;</syntax>
     249
     250                <description>
     251
     252                        <para>
     253                                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.
    241254                        </para>
    242255
     
    276289        </bitlbee-command>
    277290
    278         <bitlbee-setting name="charset" type="string">
    279                 <default>iso8859-1</default>
     291        <bitlbee-setting name="auto_connect" type="boolean" scope="both">
     292                <default>true</default>
     293
     294                <description>
     295                        <para>
     296                                With this option enabled, when you identify BitlBee will automatically connect to your accounts, with this disabled it will not do this.
     297                        </para>
     298                       
     299                        <para>
     300                                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!)
     301                        </para>
     302                </description>
     303        </bitlbee-setting>
     304
     305        <bitlbee-setting name="auto_reconnect" type="boolean" scope="both">
     306                <default>false</default>
     307
     308                <description>
     309                        <para>
     310                                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.
     311                        </para>
     312
     313                        <para>
     314                                See also the <emphasis>auto_reconnect_delay</emphasis> setting.
     315                        </para>
     316
     317                        <para>
     318                                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!)
     319                        </para>
     320                </description>
     321        </bitlbee-setting>
     322
     323        <bitlbee-setting name="auto_reconnect_delay" type="integer" scope="global">
     324                <default>300</default>
     325
     326                <description>
     327                        <para>
     328                                Tell BitlBee after how many seconds it should attempt to bring an IM-connection back up after a crash. It's not a good idea to set this value very low, it will cause too much useless traffic when an IM-server is down for a few hours.
     329                        </para>
     330
     331                        <para>
     332                                See also the <emphasis>auto_reconnect</emphasis> setting.
     333                        </para>
     334                </description>
     335        </bitlbee-setting>
     336
     337        <bitlbee-setting name="away_devoice" type="boolean" scope="global">
     338                <default>true</default>
     339
     340                <description>
     341                        <para>
     342                                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.
     343                        </para>
     344                </description>
     345        </bitlbee-setting>
     346
     347        <bitlbee-setting name="buddy_sendbuffer" type="boolean" scope="global">
     348                <default>false</default>
     349
     350                <description>
     351                        <para>
     352                                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.
     353                        </para>
     354
     355                        <para>
     356                                Using the <emphasis>buddy_sendbuffer_delay</emphasis> setting you can specify the number of seconds BitlBee should wait for more data before the complete message is sent.
     357                        </para>
     358
     359                        <para>
     360                                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.
     361                        </para>
     362                </description>
     363        </bitlbee-setting>
     364
     365        <bitlbee-setting name="buddy_sendbuffer_delay" type="integer" scope="global">
     366                <default>200</default>
     367
     368                <description>
     369
     370                        <para>
     371                                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.
     372                        </para>
     373
     374                        <para>
     375                                See also the <emphasis>buddy_sendbuffer</emphasis> setting.
     376                        </para>
     377                </description>
     378        </bitlbee-setting>
     379
     380        <bitlbee-setting name="charset" type="string" scope="global">
     381                <default>utf-8</default>
    280382                <possible-values>you can get a list of all possible values by doing 'iconv -l' in a shell</possible-values>
    281383
    282384                <description>
    283385                        <para>
    284                                 The charset setting enables you to use different character sets in BitlBee. These get converted to UTF-8 before sending and from UTF-8 when receiving.
    285                         </para>
    286 
    287                         <para>
    288                                 If you don't know what's the best value for this, at least iso8859-1 is the best choice for most Western countries. You can try to find what works best for you on http://czyborra.com/charsets/iso8859.html
    289                         </para>
    290                 </description>
    291 
    292         </bitlbee-setting>
    293 
    294         <bitlbee-setting name="private" type="boolean">
    295                 <default>True</default>
    296 
    297                 <description>
    298 
    299                         <para>
    300                                 If value is true, messages from users will appear in separate query windows. If false, messages from users will appear in the control channel.
    301                         </para>
    302 
    303                         <para>
    304                                 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.
    305                         </para>
    306                 </description>
    307         </bitlbee-setting>
    308 
    309         <bitlbee-setting name="save_on_quit" type="boolean">
    310                 <default>True</default>
    311 
    312                 <description>
    313                         <para>
    314                                 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.
    315                         </para>
    316                 </description>
    317         </bitlbee-setting>
    318 
    319         <bitlbee-setting name="strip_html" type="boolean">
    320                 <default>True</default>
    321 
    322                 <description>
    323                         <para>
    324                                 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.
    325                         </para>
    326                         <para>
    327                                 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.
    328                         </para>
    329                 </description>
    330         </bitlbee-setting>
    331 
    332         <bitlbee-setting name="debug" type="boolean">
    333                 <default>False</default>
     386                                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.
     387                        </para>
     388
     389                        <para>
     390                                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
     391                        </para>
     392                </description>
     393
     394        </bitlbee-setting>
     395
     396        <bitlbee-setting name="debug" type="boolean" scope="global">
     397                <default>false</default>
    334398
    335399                <description>
     
    340404        </bitlbee-setting>
    341405
    342         <bitlbee-setting name="to_char" type="string">
    343                 <default>": "</default>
    344 
    345                 <description>
    346 
    347                         <para>
    348                                 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>.
    349                         </para>
    350 
    351                         <para>
    352                                 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.
    353                         </para>
    354                 </description>
    355         </bitlbee-setting>
    356 
    357         <bitlbee-setting name="typing_notice" type="boolean">
    358                 <default>False</default>
    359 
    360                 <description>
    361                         <para>
    362                                 Sends you a /notice when a user starts typing a message (if the protocol supports it, MSN for example). This is a bug, not a feature. (But please don't report it.. ;-) You don't want to use it. Really. In fact the typing-notification is just one of the least useful 'innovations' ever. It's just there because some guy will probably ask me about it anyway. ;-)
    363                         </para>
    364                 </description>
    365         </bitlbee-setting>
    366 
    367         <bitlbee-setting name="ops" type="string">
    368                 <default>both</default>
    369                 <possible-values>both, root, user, none</possible-values>
    370 
    371                 <description>
    372                         <para>
    373                                 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.
    374                         </para>
    375 
    376                         <para>
    377                                 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.
    378                         </para>
    379                 </description>
    380         </bitlbee-setting>
    381 
    382         <bitlbee-setting name="away_devoice" type="boolean">
    383                 <default>True</default>
    384 
    385                 <description>
    386                         <para>
    387                                 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.
    388                         </para>
    389                 </description>
    390         </bitlbee-setting>
    391 
    392         <bitlbee-setting name="handle_unknown" type="string">
     406        <bitlbee-setting name="default_target" type="string" scope="global">
     407                <default>root</default>
     408                <possible-values>root, last</possible-values>
     409
     410                <description>
     411                        <para>
     412                                With this value set to <emphasis>root</emphasis>, lines written in the control channel without any nickname in front of them will be interpreted as commands. If you want BitlBee to send those lines to the last person you addressed in the control channel, set this to <emphasis>last</emphasis>.
     413                        </para>
     414                </description>
     415        </bitlbee-setting>
     416
     417        <bitlbee-setting name="display_name" type="string" scope="account">
     418                <description>
     419                        <para>
     420                                Currently only available for MSN connections. This setting allows you to read and change your "friendly name" for this connection. Since this is a server-side setting, it can't be changed when the account is off-line.
     421                        </para>
     422                </description>
     423        </bitlbee-setting>
     424
     425        <bitlbee-setting name="display_namechanges" type="boolean" scope="global">
     426                <default>false</default>
     427
     428                <description>
     429                        <para>
     430                                With this option enabled, root will inform you when someone in your buddy list changes his/her "friendly name".
     431                        </para>
     432                </description>
     433        </bitlbee-setting>
     434
     435        <bitlbee-setting name="handle_unknown" type="string" scope="global">
    393436                <default>root</default>
    394437                <possible-values>root, add, add_private, add_channel, ignore</possible-values>
     
    417460        </bitlbee-setting>
    418461
    419         <bitlbee-setting name="auto_connect" type="boolean">
    420                 <default>True</default>
    421 
    422                 <description>
    423                         <para>
    424                                 With this option enabled, when you identify BitlBee will automatically connect to your accounts, with this disabled it will not do this.
    425                         </para>
    426                 </description>
    427         </bitlbee-setting>
    428 
    429         <bitlbee-setting name="auto_reconnect" type="boolean">
    430                 <default>False</default>
    431 
    432                 <description>
    433                         <para>
    434                                 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.
    435                         </para>
    436 
    437                         <para>
    438                                 See also the <emphasis>auto_reconnect_delay</emphasis> setting.
    439                         </para>
    440                 </description>
    441 
    442         </bitlbee-setting>
    443 
    444         <bitlbee-setting name="auto_reconnect_delay" type="integer">
    445                 <default>300</default>
    446 
    447                 <description>
    448 
    449                         <para>
    450                                 Tell BitlBee after how many seconds it should attempt to bring an IM-connection back up after a crash. It's not a good idea to set this value very low, it will cause too much useless traffic when an IM-server is down for a few hours.
    451                         </para>
    452 
    453                         <para>
    454                                 See also the <emphasis>auto_reconnect</emphasis> setting.
    455                         </para>
    456                 </description>
    457         </bitlbee-setting>
    458 
    459         <bitlbee-setting name="buddy_sendbuffer" type="boolean">
    460                 <default>False</default>
    461 
    462                 <description>
    463 
    464                         <para>
    465                                 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.
    466                         </para>
    467 
    468                         <para>
    469                                 Using the <emphasis>buddy_sendbuffer_delay</emphasis> setting you can specify the number of seconds BitlBee should wait for more data before the complete message is sent.
    470                         </para>
    471 
    472                         <para>
    473                                 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.
    474                         </para>
    475                 </description>
    476 
    477         </bitlbee-setting>
    478 
    479         <bitlbee-setting name="buddy_sendbuffer_delay" type="integer">
    480                 <default>200</default>
    481 
    482                 <description>
    483 
    484                         <para>
    485                                 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.
    486                         </para>
    487 
    488                         <para>
    489                                 See also the <emphasis>buddy_sendbuffer</emphasis> setting.
    490                         </para>
    491                 </description>
    492 
    493         </bitlbee-setting>
    494 
    495         <bitlbee-setting name="default_target" type="string">
    496                 <default>root</default>
    497                 <possible-values>root, last</possible-values>
    498 
    499                 <description>
    500                         <para>
    501                                 With this value set to <emphasis>root</emphasis>, lines written in the control channel without any nickname in front of them will be interpreted as commands. If you want BitlBee to send those lines to the last person you addressed in the control channel, set this to <emphasis>last</emphasis>.
    502                         </para>
    503                 </description>
    504 
    505         </bitlbee-setting>
    506 
    507         <bitlbee-setting name="display_namechanges" type="boolean">
    508                 <default>False</default>
    509 
    510                 <para>
    511                         With this option enabled, root will inform you when someone in your buddy list changes his/her "friendly name".
    512                 </para>
    513         </bitlbee-setting>
    514 
    515         <bitlbee-setting name="password" type="string">
    516                 <description>
    517                         <para>
    518                                 Use this setting to change your "NickServ" password.
    519                         </para>
    520                 </description>
    521         </bitlbee-setting>
    522 
    523         <bitlbee-setting name="query_order" type="string">
     462        <bitlbee-setting name="lcnicks" type="boolean" scope="global">
     463                <default>true</default>
     464
     465                <description>
     466                        <para>
     467                                Hereby you can change whether you want all lower case nick names or leave the case as it intended by your peer.
     468                        </para>
     469                </description>
     470
     471        </bitlbee-setting>
     472
     473        <bitlbee-setting name="mail_notifications" type="boolean" scope="account">
     474                <default>false</default>
     475
     476                <description>
     477                        <para>
     478                                Some protocols (MSN, Yahoo!) can notify via IM about new e-mail. Since most people use their Hotmail/Yahoo! addresses as a spam-box, this is disabled default. If you want these notifications, you can enable this setting.
     479                        </para>
     480                </description>
     481
     482        </bitlbee-setting>
     483
     484        <bitlbee-setting name="ops" type="string" scope="global">
     485                <default>both</default>
     486                <possible-values>both, root, user, none</possible-values>
     487
     488                <description>
     489                        <para>
     490                                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.
     491                        </para>
     492
     493                        <para>
     494                                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.
     495                        </para>
     496                </description>
     497        </bitlbee-setting>
     498
     499        <bitlbee-setting name="password" type="string" scope="both">
     500                <description>
     501                        <para>
     502                                Use this global setting to change your "NickServ" password.
     503                        </para>
     504                       
     505                        <para>
     506                                This setting is also available for all IM accounts to change the password BitlBee uses to connect to the service.
     507                        </para>
     508                       
     509                        <para>
     510                                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.
     511                        </para>
     512                </description>
     513        </bitlbee-setting>
     514       
     515        <bitlbee-setting name="port" type="integer" scope="account">
     516                <description>
     517                        <para>
     518                                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.
     519                        </para>
     520                </description>
     521        </bitlbee-setting>
     522
     523        <bitlbee-setting name="priority" type="integer" scope="account">
     524                <default>0</default>
     525
     526                <description>
     527                        <para>
     528                                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).
     529                        </para>
     530
     531                        <para>
     532                                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).
     533                        </para>
     534                </description>
     535        </bitlbee-setting>
     536
     537        <bitlbee-setting name="private" type="boolean" scope="global">
     538                <default>true</default>
     539
     540                <description>
     541                        <para>
     542                                If value is true, messages from users will appear in separate query windows. If false, messages from users will appear in the control channel.
     543                        </para>
     544
     545                        <para>
     546                                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.
     547                        </para>
     548                </description>
     549        </bitlbee-setting>
     550
     551        <bitlbee-setting name="query_order" type="string" scope="global">
    524552                <default>lifo</default>
    525553                <possible-values>lifo, fifo</possible-values>
     
    536564        </bitlbee-setting>
    537565
    538         <bitlbee-setting name="lcnicks" type="boolean">
    539                 <default>True</default>
    540 
    541                 <description>
    542                         <para>
    543                                 Hereby you can change whether you want all lower case nick names or leave the case as it intended by your peer.
    544                         </para>
    545                 </description>
    546 
     566        <bitlbee-setting name="resource" type="string" scope="account">
     567                <default>BitlBee</default>
     568
     569                <description>
     570                        <para>
     571                                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.
     572                        </para>
     573                </description>
     574        </bitlbee-setting>
     575
     576        <bitlbee-setting name="resource_select" type="string" scope="account">
     577                <default>priority</default>
     578                <possible-values>priority, time</possible-values>
     579
     580                <description>
     581                        <para>
     582                                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.
     583                        </para>
     584
     585                        <para>
     586                                Normally it's set to <emphasis>priority</emphasis> which means messages will always be delivered to the buddy's resource with the highest priority. If the setting is set to <emphasis>time</emphasis>, messages will be delivered to the resource that was last used to send you a message (or the resource that most recently connected).
     587                        </para>
     588                </description>
     589        </bitlbee-setting>
     590
     591        <bitlbee-setting name="save_on_quit" type="boolean" scope="global">
     592                <default>true</default>
     593
     594                <description>
     595                        <para>
     596                                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.
     597                        </para>
     598                </description>
     599        </bitlbee-setting>
     600
     601        <bitlbee-setting name="server" type="string" scope="account">
     602                <description>
     603                        <para>
     604                                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.
     605                        </para>
     606                </description>
     607        </bitlbee-setting>
     608
     609        <bitlbee-setting name="simulate_netsplit" type="boolean" scope="global">
     610                <default>true</default>
     611
     612                <description>
     613                        <para>
     614                                Some IRC clients parse quit messages sent by the IRC server to see if someone really left or just disappeared because of a netsplit. By default, BitlBee tries to simulate netsplit-like quit messages to keep the control channel window clean. If you don't like this (or if your IRC client doesn't support this) you can disable this setting.
     615                        </para>
     616                </description>
     617        </bitlbee-setting>
     618
     619        <bitlbee-setting name="ssl" type="boolean" scope="account">
     620                <default>false</default>
     621
     622                <description>
     623                        <para>
     624                                Currently only available for Jabber connections. Set this to true if the server accepts SSL connections.
     625                        </para>
     626                </description>
     627        </bitlbee-setting>
     628
     629        <bitlbee-setting name="strip_html" type="boolean" scope="global">
     630                <default>true</default>
     631
     632                <description>
     633                        <para>
     634                                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.
     635                        </para>
     636                        <para>
     637                                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.
     638                        </para>
     639                </description>
     640        </bitlbee-setting>
     641
     642        <bitlbee-setting name="tls" type="boolean" scope="account">
     643                <default>try</default>
     644
     645                <description>
     646                        <para>
     647                                Newer Jabber servers allow clients to convert a plain-text session to a TLS/SSL-encrypted session. Normally (with this setting set to <emphasis>try</emphasis>) BitlBee will do this, if possible.
     648                        </para>
     649
     650                        <para>
     651                                If you want to force BitlBee to use TLS sessions only (and to give up if that doesn't seem to be possible) you can set this setting to <emphasis>true</emphasis>. Set it to <emphasis>false</emphasis> if you want the session to remain plain-text.
     652                        </para>
     653                </description>
     654        </bitlbee-setting>
     655
     656        <bitlbee-setting name="to_char" type="string" scope="global">
     657                <default>": "</default>
     658
     659                <description>
     660                        <para>
     661                                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>.
     662                        </para>
     663
     664                        <para>
     665                                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.
     666                        </para>
     667                </description>
     668        </bitlbee-setting>
     669
     670        <bitlbee-setting name="typing_notice" type="boolean" scope="global">
     671                <default>false</default>
     672
     673                <description>
     674                        <para>
     675                                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.
     676                        </para>
     677                </description>
     678        </bitlbee-setting>
     679
     680        <bitlbee-setting name="web_aware" type="string" scope="account">
     681                <default>false</default>
     682
     683                <description>
     684                        <para>
     685                                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.
     686                        </para>
     687
     688                        <para>
     689                                Unless you really intend to use this feature somewhere (on forums or maybe a website), it's probably better to keep this setting disabled.
     690                        </para>
     691                </description>
     692        </bitlbee-setting>
     693
     694        <bitlbee-setting name="xmlconsole" type="boolean" scope="account">
     695                <default>false</default>
     696
     697                <description>
     698                        <para>
     699                                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.
     700                        </para>
     701                        <para>
     702                                If you want to enable this XML console permanently (and at login time already), you can set this setting.
     703                        </para>
     704                </description>
    547705        </bitlbee-setting>
    548706
     
    668826                <short-description>Change friendly name, nick</short-description>
    669827                <syntax>nick &lt;connection&gt; [&lt;new nick&gt;]</syntax>
    670                 <syntax>nick</syntax>
    671 
    672                 <description>
    673                         <para>
    674                                 This command allows to set the friendly name of an im account. If no new name is specified the command will report the current name. When the name contains spaces, don't forget to quote the whole nick in double quotes. Currently this command is only supported by the MSN protocol.
     828                <syntax>nick &lt;connection&gt;</syntax>
     829
     830                <description>
     831                        <para>
     832                                Deprecated: Use the per-account <emphasis>display_name</emphasis> setting to read and change this information.
    675833                        </para>
    676834                </description>
    677835
    678836                <ircexample>
    679                         <ircline nick="wouter">nick 1 "Wouter Paesen"</ircline>
    680                         <ircline nick="root">Setting your name on connection 1 to `Wouter Paesen'</ircline>
     837                        <ircline nick="wouter">account set 1/display_name "The majestik møøse"</ircline>
     838                        <ircline nick="root">display_name = `The majestik møøse'</ircline>
    681839                </ircexample>
    682840
    683841        </bitlbee-command>
    684842
    685         <bitlbee-command name="import_buddies">
    686                 <short-description>Copy local buddy list to server (normally only needed when upgrading)</short-description>
    687                 <syntax>import_buddies &lt;connection&gt; [clear]</syntax>
    688 
    689                 <description>
    690                         <para>
    691                                 This command copies the locally stored buddy list to the server. This command exists for upgrading purposes. Previous versions of BitlBee didn't support server-side buddy lists for ICQ, so the list was stored locally.
    692                         </para>
    693 
    694                         <para>
    695                                 Since version 0.91 however, server-side contact lists are supported for all protocols, so the local list is now ignored. When upgrading from an older BitlBee to version 0.91, you might need this command to get your buddy list back.
    696                         </para>
    697 
    698                         <para>
    699                                 The only argument this command needs is your ICQ account identification. If your serverside buddy list contains some old buddies you don't want anymore, you can pass <emphasis>clear</emphasis> as a second argument.
    700                         </para>
    701 
    702                         <para>
    703                                 After giving this command, you have to wait for a while before all the adds are handled, because of ICQ's rate limiting. If your buddy list is very large and the ICQ server starts complaining, you might have to reconnect and enter this command again.
    704                         </para>
    705                 </description>
     843        <bitlbee-command name="join_chat">
     844                <short-description>Join a named groupchat/conference room</short-description>
     845                <syntax>join_chat &lt;connection&gt; &lt;room name&gt; [&lt;channel name&gt;] [&lt;room nickname&gt;] [&lt;password&gt;]</syntax>
     846
     847                <description>
     848                        <para>
     849                                On most IM-networks groupchats can be started using the /join command. (<emphasis>/join #foo</emphasis> to start a chatroom with you and <emphasis>foo</emphasis>) This doesn't work with names groupchats though (which exist on Jabber networks and AIM, for example), instead you can use this command.
     850                        </para>
     851
     852                        <para>
     853                                The first two arguments are required. <emphasis>room name</emphasis> is the name of the chatroom on the IM-network. <emphasis>channel name</emphasis> is the IRC channel name BitlBee should map this to. <emphasis>room nickname</emphasis> is the nickname you want to have in this channel. If you don't give these options, BitlBee will do the right guesses.
     854                        </para>
     855
     856                        <para>
     857                                The following command will join you to the chatroom called <emphasis>bitlbee@conference.bitlbee.org</emphasis>. The channel will be called <emphasis>&amp;bitlbee-help</emphasis> because <emphasis>&amp;bitlbee</emphasis> will already be in use. Your nickname will be <emphasis>help-me</emphasis>.
     858                        </para>
     859                </description>
     860
     861                <ircexample>
     862                        <ircline nick="wilmer">join_chat jabber bitlbee@conference.bitlbee.org &amp;bitlbee-help help-me</ircline>
     863                </ircexample>
    706864
    707865        </bitlbee-command>
  • doc/user-guide/docbook.xsl

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    8383
    8484        <xsl:template name="cmd">
     85                <xsl:param name="prefix"/>
    8586                <xsl:variable name="thiscmd"><xsl:value-of select="$prefix"/><xsl:value-of select="@name"/></xsl:variable>
    8687                <xsl:attribute name="id">
  • doc/user-guide/help.xsl

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    77        version="1.1">
    88
    9         <xsl:output method="text" encoding="iso-8859-1" standalone="yes"/>
     9        <xsl:output method="text" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"/>
    1010        <xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>
    1111
     
    3131
    3232        <xsl:template name="subject">
     33                <xsl:param name="id"/>
    3334                <xsl:message><xsl:text>Processing: </xsl:text><xsl:value-of select="$id"/></xsl:message>
    3435                <xsl:text>?</xsl:text><xsl:value-of select="$id"/><xsl:text>&#10;</xsl:text>
     
    5859                        <xsl:text>?set </xsl:text><xsl:value-of select="@name"/><xsl:text>&#10;</xsl:text>
    5960                        <xsl:text>_b_Type:_b_ </xsl:text><xsl:value-of select="@type"/><xsl:text>&#10;</xsl:text>
    60                         <xsl:text>_b_Default:_b_ </xsl:text><xsl:value-of select="default"/><xsl:text>&#10;</xsl:text>
     61                        <xsl:text>_b_Scope:_b_ </xsl:text><xsl:value-of select="@scope"/><xsl:text>&#10;</xsl:text>
     62                        <xsl:if test="default">
     63                                <xsl:text>_b_Default:_b_ </xsl:text><xsl:value-of select="default"/><xsl:text>&#10;</xsl:text>
     64                        </xsl:if>
    6165                        <xsl:if test="possible-values">
    6266                                <xsl:text>_b_Possible Values:_b_ </xsl:text><xsl:value-of select="possible-values"/><xsl:text>&#10;</xsl:text>
     
    119123
    120124        <xsl:template name="cmd">
     125                <xsl:param name="prefix"/>
    121126                <xsl:variable name="thiscmd"><xsl:value-of select="$prefix"/><xsl:value-of select="@name"/></xsl:variable>
    122127                <xsl:message><xsl:text>Processing command '</xsl:text><xsl:value-of select="$thiscmd"/><xsl:text>'</xsl:text></xsl:message>
  • doc/user-guide/misc.xml

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    4747</variablelist>
    4848
    49 <para>
    50 This list was extracted from <ulink url="http://help.msn.com/!data/en_us/data/messengerv50.its51/$content$/EMOTICONS.HTM?H_APP=">http://help.msn.com/!data/en_us/data/messengerv50.its51/$content$/EMOTICONS.HTM?H_APP=</ulink>.
    51 </para>
    52 
    5349</sect1>
    5450
     
    5652<title>Groupchats</title>
    5753<para>
    58 Since version 0.8x, BitlBee supports groupchats on the MSN and Yahoo! networks. This text will try to explain you how they work.
     54BitlBee now supports groupchats on all IM networks. This text will try to explain you how they work.
    5955</para>
    6056
     
    7369
    7470<para>
    75 If you want to start a groupchat with the person <emphasis>jim_msn</emphasis> in it, just join the channel <emphasis>#jim_msn</emphasis>. BitlBee will refuse to join you to the channel with that name, but it will create a new virtual channel with root, you and jim_msn in it.
     71If you want to start a groupchat with the person <emphasis>lisa_msn</emphasis> in it, just join the channel <emphasis>#lisa_msn</emphasis>. BitlBee will refuse to join you to the channel with that name, but it will create a new virtual channel with root, you and lisa_msn in it.
    7672</para>
    7773
     
    8177
    8278<para>
    83 This is all you'll probably need to know. If you have any problems, please read <emphasis>help groupchats3</emphasis>.
    84 </para>
    85 
    86 </sect1>
    87 
    88 <sect1 id="groupchats3">
    89 <title>Groupchat channel names</title>
    90 
    91 <para>
    92 Obviously the (numbered) channel names don't make a lot of sense. Problem is that groupchats usually don't have names at all in the IM-world, while IRC insists on a name. So BitlBee just generates something random, just don't pay attention to it. :-)
    93 </para>
    94 
    95 <para>
    96 Please also note that BitlBee doesn't support groupchats for all protocols yet. BitlBee will tell you so. Support for other protocols will hopefully come later.
     79Some protocols (like Jabber) also support named groupchats. BitlBee now supports these too. You can use the <emphasis>join_chat</emphasis> command to join them. See <emphasis>help join_chat</emphasis> for more information.
    9780</para>
    9881
     
    117100        <member>On the phone, Phone, On phone</member>
    118101        <member>Out to lunch, Lunch, Food</member>
     102        <member>Invisible, Hidden</member>
    119103</simplelist>
    120104
     
    124108
    125109<para>
    126 You can also add more information to your away message. Setting it to "Busy - Fixing BitlBee bugs" will set your IM-away-states to Busy, but your away message will be more descriptive for people on IRC. Protocols like Yahoo! and Jabber will also show this complete away message to your buddies.
     110You can also add more information to your away message. Setting it to "Busy - Fixing BitlBee bugs" will set your IM-away-states to Busy, but your away message will be more descriptive for people on IRC. Most IM-protocols can also show this additional information to your buddies.
    127111</para>
    128112
  • doc/user-guide/quickstart.xml

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    3434
    3535<para>
    36 For instance, suppose you have an ICQ account with UIN <emphasis>72696705</emphasis> with password <emphasis>QuickStart</emphasis>, you would:
     36For instance, suppose you have a Jabber account at jabber.org with handle <emphasis>bitlbee@jabber.org</emphasis> with password <emphasis>QuickStart</emphasis>, you would:
    3737</para>
    3838
    3939<ircexample>
    40         <ircline nick="you">account add oscar 72696705 QuickStart login.icq.com</ircline>
     40        <ircline nick="you">account add jabber bitlbee@jabber.org QuickStart</ircline>
    4141        <ircline nick="root">Account successfully added</ircline>
    4242</ircexample>
    4343
    4444<para>
    45 Other available IM protocols are jabber, msn, and yahoo. Oscar is the protocol used by ICQ and AOL. For oscar, you need to specify the IM-server as a fourth argument (for msn and yahoo there is no fourth argument). For AOL Instant Messenger, the server name is <emphasis>login.oscar.aol.com</emphasis>. For ICQ, the server name is <emphasis>login.icq.com</emphasis>.
     45Other available IM protocols are msn, oscar, and yahoo. OSCAR is the protocol used by ICQ and AOL. For more information about the <emphasis>account add</emphasis> command, see <emphasis>help account add</emphasis>.
    4646</para>
    4747
     
    6161
    6262<para>
    63 For most protocols (currently MSN, Jabber, Yahoo and AOL) BitlBee can download the contact list automatically from the IM server and all the on-line users should appear in the control channel when you log in.
     63Now BitlBee logs in and downloads the contact list from the IM server. In a few seconds, all your on-line buddies should show up in the control channel.
    6464</para>
    6565
    6666<para>
    67 BitlBee will convert names into irc-friendly form (for instance: tux@example.com will be given the nickname tux). If you have more than one person who would have the same name by this logic (for instance: tux@example.com and tux@bitlbee.org) the second one to log on will be tux_. The same is true if you have a tux log on to AOL and a tux log on from Yahoo.
     67BitlBee will convert names into IRC-friendly form (for instance: tux@example.com will be given the nickname tux). If you have more than one person who would have the same name by this logic (for instance: tux@example.com and tux@bitlbee.org) the second one to log on will be tux_. The same is true if you have a tux log on to AOL and a tux log on from Yahoo.
    6868</para>
    6969
     
    127127<ircexample>
    128128        <ircline nick="you">tux: hey, how's the weather down there?</ircline>
    129         <ircline nick="tux"> you: a bit chilly!</ircline>
     129        <ircline nick="tux">you: a bit chilly!</ircline>
    130130</ircexample>
    131131
    132132<para>
    133 If you'd rather chat with them in a separate window use the <emphasis>/msg</emphasis> or <emphasis>/query</emphasis> command, just like you would for a private message in IRC.  If you want to have messages automatically come up in private messages rather than in the &amp;bitlbee channel, use the <emphasis>set private</emphasis> command: <emphasis>set private true</emphasis> (<emphasis>set private false</emphasis> to change back).
     133Note that, although all contacts are in the &amp;bitlbee channel, only tux will actually receive this message. The &amp;bitlbee channel shouldn't be confused with a real IRC channel.
     134</para>
     135
     136<para>
     137If you prefer chatting in a separate window, use the <emphasis>/msg</emphasis> or <emphasis>/query</emphasis> command, just like on real IRC. BitlBee will remember how you talk to someone and show his/her responses the same way. If you want to change the default behaviour (for people you haven't talked to yet), see <emphasis>help set private</emphasis>.
    134138</para>
    135139
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