What is Irssi?

Shipped-by-default Perl scripting with a wide range of available extensions. Integrates into the UNIX stack: Your window manager, your terminal emulator, your remote connection, your terminal multiplexer, your IRC bouncer, your IRC adapter. Irssi is free software licensed under the GPLv2, available for Linux, BSD, Solaris, Haiku, Apple, Cygwin, …

Do I need to run Irssi in a screen to use it?

You’ll still need to run irssi in a screen to use it though. Irssi proxy is a bit different than most proxies, normally proxies create a new connection to IRC server when a new client connects to it, but irssi proxy shares your existing IRC connection (s) to multiple clients.

How to start logging with irssi?

Easiest way to start logging with Irssi is to use autologging. With it Irssi logs all channels and private messages to specified directory. You can turn it on with

What are the message levels in Irssi?

All messages that irssi prints have one or more “message levels”. Most common are PUBLIC for public messages in channels, MSGS for private messages and CRAP for all sorts of messages with no real classification. You can get a whole list of levels with