Lessons learned for Bitlbee

From personal usage

• account ACCOUNTNUMBER set server talk.google.com
  • http://wiki.bitlbee.org/GoogleApps
• Twitter quickfix http://bugs.bitlbee.org/bitlbee/ticket/794
• upgraded to bitlbee_3.0.1+devel+789-1
• help command : mostly everything you ever need to know :)
• identify password (in the bitblee default window) : identify and automatically connect to your registered accounts
• account on X : connect an IM account
• blist : list the current connection persons
• rename oldnick newnick : rename
• nick connection newnick : you change our nickname

From setting up my own bitlbee server

• /oper yourname yourpassword : access the special operator commands (kill someone off the server, rehash (re-read the config file), etc)
• /server your.server.net:6667 password : connect to a close bitlbee server asking for a password
• copying the /etc files is NOT enough to copy the user information
  • /var/lib/bitlbee
  • if you scp the file you need to restart the server, not just reconnect. Also double-check that the server is really down (/etc/init.d/bitlbee stop didn't work for me so I had to manually kill the process)

References

• External documentations made by the community
• Facebook Chat In Bitlbee Aaron Toponce February 2010

Note

My notes on Tools gather what I know or want to know. Consequently they are not and will never be complete references. For this, official manuals and online communities provide much better answers.