miau 0.6.2 review

miau is a small, fully featured IRC bouncer and IRC proxy. The biggest difference of miau and HTTP-proxy (forgetting the fact they

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 0K Developer: Tommi Saviranta

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miau is a small, fully featured IRC bouncer and IRC proxy.

The biggest difference of miau and HTTP-proxy (forgetting the fact they talk all different protocols) is that when IRC-client disconnects from bouncer, the connection to the server isn't necessarily lost.

This way your nick can stay online and cannot be taken by the others. In case bouncer loses the nick because of netsplit or other disruption, it can try to get it back automatically.

Some people may also like the fact that when using bouncer, your hostname appearing in IRC is the one of the machine the bouncer is running at, not the one you are IRCing from.

miau was written on GNU/Linux (i386), but it should compile on most UNIX-platforms.

Here are some key features of "miau":
Permanent connection to IRC-server
Can set user away when client quits and can also use user's quit-message as away-message.
Ability to try to get primary nick
Logging (recent log can be replayed automatically at reconnect like you already had been on the channel)
Message forwarding
DCC-bouncing
Auto-mode (without mode-flood)
Flood protection
On-connect sent messages (to keep nickservs etc. happy)
Ability to survive even if some pings to server are lost
V-host support
Preliminary IPv6-support (untested)
Cats in ASCII
Support for multiple clients (one at home, one at office)
Permission-chains
Portable, written in C
Compiles (at least) on GNU/Linux (i386/StrongARM/Alpha), HP-UX (HP 9000/C3000), SunOS (sun4m/sun4u/sun4c), Digital UNIX (Alpha) and MacOSX (PPC). Not tested on others.
Small (my miau is about 50 kB KiB on GNU/Linux on i386)
Most features can be left uncompiled
Released under GPL

What's New in This Release:
This release reintroduces channels before replaying quicklog.
A crash in the qlog-to-inbox feature when opening the inbox fails has been fixed.
This release assumes the correct nick at connection time.
It adds miau-commands and more configuration options for quicklog.