nimbot is a non-intrustive IRC mailbot. It notifies users when they're mentioned in an IRC channel, but without spamming the channel. In fact, it doesn't talk in the channel at all. Communication with the bot is done only through private queries, and it can be enabled or disabled on a per-user basis.

To send mail with nimbot, start your message with "[nickname]:". You can specify multiple nicknames, separated by commas or colons. For example:

• nickname: Message.
• nickname1, nickname2: Message.
• nickname1: nickname2: Message.

nimbot can be enabled or disabled for each user with the command /msg nimbot (enable|disable). It is enabled by default for all users. For more information on how to use nimbot, /msg nimbot help.

nimbot will create two files when terminated: prefs and saved_mentions.

prefs contains a list of users who have ever been on the IRC channel and whether or not nimbot is enabled for them. Entries are line-separated in the format [name (lowercase)] [enabled (True/False)]. Entries can be manually added to notify nimbot of users who won't be on the channel when it first joins.

saved_mentions contains a list of messages which have not yet been delivered. nimbot will read from this file when starting up, so undelivered messages won't be lost when restarting.

See nimbot --help for information on how to run it.

• Python 3.2 or higher
• humanize 0.5.1 or higher