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Proxying text-based chat with the IRC protocol (chat-irc-proxy)

Your [[account]] can serve as proxy for your chat sessions, caching conversations that takes place while you are offline and making your chat avatar appear always online.

For IRC proxying, use the tool ZNC.

Setup

/!\ You must first require a ZNC port number from your system administrator, to ensure that your setup does not clash with other services on the system.

Create an initial setup for ZNC:

ssh [[!template id=shellhost]] znc --makeconf