I’ve been a long time user of the irssi IRC client, and for a while now I’ve been wondering if I could log all my private messages without having to log all the channel history as well. I log all my instant messaging in Pidgin, because it often has useful information that I want to check back for, but I’ve lost a lot of stuff by not having logging in irssi.
So here’s how you do it, in 2 simple commands:
/set autolog on
/set autolog_level MSGS -crap -clientcrap -ctcps
This will set up a log structure something like this:
~/irclogs/<network>/<nick>.log
for instance ~/irclogs/freenode/mrben.log if I had PMed you on the Freenode network (where I hang out).
Anyway – I thought this was really useful, and not as easy to find on Google as it should have been. Enjoy.
mrBen
It’s not easy to find a simple way of emailing that info to oneself either.
I use so many different computers it’s better if pm’s or name usage could be emailed to me perhaps using a script & a cron job.
Thanks a lot dude for this hint. I was searching for that hours until I found your posting here. Thank you very much.