Setting up IRC redirects

Updated 2023-10-23: The +i mode was added. See below for details.

A few weeks ago I wanted to set up a few redirects on IRC. Mainly, I wanted to redirect #vdirsyncer, #khal and #todoman to the #pimutils channel (given that pimutils is the umbrella project for both of these).

These are the commands I had to run after authenticating:

/msg ChanServ register #todoman
/msg ChanServ set #todoman mlock +if #pimutils
/msg ChanServ set #todoman guard on

/msg ChanServ register #vdirsyncer
/msg ChanServ set #vdirsyncer mlock +if #pimutils
/msg ChanServ set #vdirsyncer guard on

/msg ChanServ register #khal
/msg ChanServ set #khal mlock +if #pimutils
/msg ChanServ set #khal guard on

Reference

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• mlock locks the mode to the specified one
• guard will retain the channel even if everyone leaves.
• +i: make channel invite only
• +f: forward to another channel

The channel needs to be invite only; only users that cannot join the channel are redirected.

Topic

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Setting a topic is important:

/msg chanserv topic #pimutils Don't ask if you can ask questions, just ask. Be prepared to wait, your question will not be answered immediately.